Biography:Margita Kresáková

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Short description: Slovak astronomer

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" (in cs). planetky.cz. 2 December 2001. http://www.planetky.cz/clanek/cesko--slovensko-na-obloze-iii.-aneb-o-kometach-a-lidech. Retrieved 1 April 2018. 
  2. ↑ "SLOVENSKÉ A ČESKÉ KOMÉTY - 2. strana" (in sk). planetarium.sk. n.d.. http://www.planetarium.sk/komety/csk2.php. 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.. https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/9336/. Retrieved 1 April 2018. 
  5. ↑ Jenniskens, Peter (2006). Meteor Showers and Their Parent Comets. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521853491. 



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