In Dushanbe, at the age of 80, the astronomer Svetlana Gerasimenko died, the Institute of Astrophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan reports. On the eye with Klim Churumov in 1969, she opened the comet 67r, called Churumova-Gerasimenko. Subsequently, the spacecraft was put on this comet for the first time in history. The asteroid (3945), opened in 1982 by the astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, was also named after Svetlana Gerasimenko. We express condolences to the family and close and wish them patience, ”the Academy of Sciences said in a statement of the Academy of Sciences. Svetlan Gerasimenko was born in the Kyiv region in 1945. In 1968, she entered the Astronomical Department of the University of Kyiv. In September 1969, Gerasimenko, along with an employee of the Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Klim Chumyumov, went on an expedition to Alma-Ata to observe a comet 32p/Komas Sol. In the 32p pictures taken by Gerasimenko, the astronomers found another 67r comet. She was named in their honor. In 1973, Gerasimenko was invited in Dushanbe to work as a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, where she continued to work until her death. In 2017, Gerasimenko was awarded the State Propertia of Tajikistan in the field of science and technology for the opening of the Cometes Churumov-Gerasimenko. In 2004, the European Space Agency chose the Comet Churumov-Gerasimenko in order to put the spacecraft on it. The Rosetta apparatus with another probe called Phil on board was launched into space. The discoverers of the comet were present at the launch of Rosetta at the Kuru cosmodrome in French Guiana. The probe reached a comet in ten years. Klimov died in Ukraine in 2016. He was 79 years old. Rosette photographer 10 portraits of Cometa Churumov-Gerasimenkophobographer Rosett 10 portraits of Cometa Churumov-Gerasimenko (Tagstotranslate) News
