Pelageya Shajn
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 68 years ago |
Date of birth | September 22,1894 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Solikamskiy Rayon |
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Died | Moscow |
Russia | |
Date of died | August 27,1956 |
Current partner | Grigory Shajn |
Discovered | 61P/Shajn–Schaldach |
1120 Cannonia | |
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ID | 4259970 |
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.