Dr Klim Churyumov, Director of the Kiev Planetarium in Ukraine. is standing on the right in this image on his Facebook page. He is co-discoverer of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the comet the Rosetta spacecraft is approaching. He works at the Astronomical Observatory of Kiev University. The story of the comet discovery was that on September 20, 1969 he was examining a photographic plate of comet 32P/Comas- Sola that had been previously exposed by S. I. Gerasimenko. He noticed a small comet on the edge of the plate which he thought at the time was comet 32P It was on October 22, 1969 when the plate was examined closer that comet 32P was 1.8 degrees from the object he had noticed previously at the edge. That turned out to be a new comet designated C/1969 R1 (Churyumov-Gerasimenko) The new comet was found on other plates upon further examination The sets of astrometric observations were sufficient for Brian Marsden to calculate an orbit and other astronomers were able to locate it and confirm it. The comet is now designated 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Aleksandra Ivanova (left) and Klim Churyumov .(right) https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=702769946457510&set=at.702746663126505.1073741835.100001735329282.100000437796075&type=1&theater
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:40:58 +0000
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