Margita Kresáková

Margita Kresáková (née Vozárová; 21 May 1927 – 1994) was a Slovak astronomer.

She discovered comet C/1954 O1 on 28 July 1954,[1] becoming just the second woman to discover a comet at the Skalnaté pleso Observatory.[2] She married Slovak astronomer Ľubor Kresák in 1954 and they had one daughter.[3]

Kresáková was a member of the International Astronomical Union.[4] She wrote a 1966 paper on meteor stream activity.[5]

The minor planet 9821 Gitakresáková is named after her.

References

  1. ^ "Česko & Slovensko na obloze III. aneb o kometách a lidech". planetky.cz (in Czech). 2 December 2001. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. ^ "SLOVENSKÉ A ČESKÉ KOMÉTY - 2. strana". planetarium.sk (in Slovak). n.d. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  3. ^ Carusi, A. (February 1994). "In memoriam Ľubor Kresák". WGN. 22 (1): 1. Bibcode:1994JIMO...22....1C.
  4. ^ "Margita Kresáková". International Astronomical Union. n.d. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  5. ^ Jenniskens, Peter (2006). Meteor Showers and Their Parent Comets. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521853491.


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