19082 Vikchernov | Discovered 1976 Aug. 26 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. |
Viktor Mikhailovich Chernov (1902-1984), a librarian at Zaporozhie in Ukraine, was a prominent astronomer who obtained valuable new results on variable stars, on the dependence of brightness and color of lunar eclipses on solar activity, as well as on transient lunar phenomena. |
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