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Pelageya Shajn

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Gender Female
Death68 years ago
Date of birth September 22,1894
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Solikamskiy Rayon
Russia
DiedMoscow
Russia
Date of died August 27,1956
Current partner Grigory Shajn
Discovered61P/Shajn–Schaldach
1120 Cannonia
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Pelageya Shajn Life story


Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova, was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at the Simeiz Observatory in 1928. Pelageya also discovered numerous variable stars and co-discovered the periodic, Jupiter-family comet 61P/Shajn–Schaldach.

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