Jana Tichá Facts for Kids

Jana Tichá with her ex-husband Miloš Tichý

Minor planets discovered: 110
see § List of discovered minor planets

Jana Tichá (born 1965 in České Budějovice) is a Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kleť Observatory.

She specializes in discoveries of asteroids and comets especially near-Earth objects (NEOs). The Minor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 104 numbered minor planets during 1995–2003. She is the chair of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), which is responsible for approving names of asteroids. She works together with her husband Miloš Tichý at Kleť.

In her country she is also well known for her popularization activities. She is major contributor to the Czech web servers about asteroids]and comets.

On 3 May 1996 the asteroid 5757 Tichá was named in her honour (M.P.C. 27128), while she named her discovery, the main-belt asteroid 8307 Peltan, after several members of her family.

List of discovered minor planets

7441 Láska	30 July 1995	list
7493 Hirzo	24 October 1995	list
7608 Telegramia	22 October 1995	list
8307 Peltan	5 March 1995	list
8572 Nijo	19 October 1996	list
10234 Sixtygarden	27 December 1997	list
10403 Marcelgrün	22 November 1997	list
10872 Vaculík	12 October 1996	list
11105 Puchnarová	24 October 1995	list
11128 Ostravia	3 November 1996	list
11141 Jindrawalter	12 January 1997	list
11144 Radiocommunicata	2 February 1997	list
11338 Schiele	13 October 1996	list
12010 Kovářov	18 October 1996	list
12833 Kamenný Újezd	2 February 1997	list
13229 Echion	2 November 1997	list
13792 Kuščynskyj	7 November 1998	list
14068 Hauserová	21 April 1996	list
14541 Sacrobosco	20 September 1997	list
14948 Bartuška	16 January 1996	list

15399 Hudec	2 November 1997	list
16083 Jorvik	12 October 1999	list
16709 Auratian	29 September 1995	list
16742 Zink	21 July 1996	list
16794 Cucullia	2 February 1997	list
17167 Olgarozanova	4 July 1999	list
18456 Mišík	8 March 1995	list
18841 Hruška	6 September 1999	list
19384 Winton	6 February 1998	list
20164 Janzajíc	9 November 1996	list
21873 Jindřichůvhradec	29 October 1999	list
21270 Otokar	19 July 1996	list
22442 Blaha	14 October 1996	list
22450 Nové Hrady	3 November 1996	list
25258 Nathaniel	7 November 1998	list
26314 Škvorecký	16 October 1998	list
26340 Evamarková	13 December 1998	list
26969 Biver	20 September 1997	list
27087 Tillmannmohr	24 October 1998	list
28220 York	28 December 1998	list

29477 Zdíkšíma	31 October 1997	list
29738 Ivobudil	23 January 1999	list
31232 Slavonice	1 February 1998	list
31238 Kroměříž	21 February 1998	list
33061 Václavmorava	2 November 1997	list
35233 Krčín	26 May 1995	list
35269 Idefix	21 August 1996	list
35446 Stáňa	6 February 1998	list
35977 Lexington	3 July 1999	list
35978 Arlington	5 July 1999	list
36035 Petrvok	6 August 1999	list
37699 Santini-Aichl	13 January 1996	list
37736 Jandl	15 November 1996	list
(38246) 1999 PL₄	14 August 1999	list
40206 Lhenice	26 September 1998	list
44530 Horáková	25 December 1998	list
44597 Thoreau	6 August 1999	list
46692 Taormina	2 February 1997	list
47144 Faulkes	7 August 1999	list
47294 Blanský les	28 November 1999	list

48794 Stolzová	5 October 1997	list
49698 Váchal	1 November 1999	list
50413 Petrginz	27 February 2000	list
52665 Brianmay	30 January 1998	list
53093 La Orotava	28 December 1998	list
55082 Xlendi	25 August 2001	list
56329 Tarxien	28 November 1999	list
56422 Mnajdra	2 April 2000	list
58607 Wenzel	19 October 1997	list
58664 IYAMMIX	21 December 1997	list
58682 Alenašolcová	10 January 1998	list
59001 Senftenberg	26 September 1998	list
59797 Píšala	7 August 1999	list
59830 Reynek	10 September 1999	list
61208 Stonařov	30 July 2000	list
66934 Kálalová	26 November 1999	list
69469 Krumbenowe	16 November 1996	list
70679 Urzidil	30 October 1999	list
70936 Kámen	28 November 1999	list
74024 Hrabě	23 April 1998	list

74370 Kolářjan	9 December 1998	list
75223 Wupatki	28 November 1999	list
76628 Kozí Hrádek	22 April 2000	list
79347 Medlov	4 December 1996	list
79354 Brundibár	16 January 1997	list
85389 Rosenauer	22 August 1996	list
85516 Vaclík	2 November 1997	list
(85573) 1998 CE	1 February 1998	list
(85574) 1998 CG	1 February 1998	list
87097 Lomaki	7 June 2000	list
91007 Ianfleming	30 January 1998	list
100735 Alpomořanská	19 February 1998	list
101721 Emanuelfritsch	13 March 1999	list
118214 Agnesediboemia	12 January 1996	list
129595 Vand	2 November 1997	list
133077 Jirsík	4 May 2003	list
136666 Seidel	17 September 1995	list
152750 Brloh	21 January 1999	list
171588 Náprstek	26 November 1999	list
192439 Cílek	1 November 1997	list

Co-discovery made with: M. Tichý
(196298) 2003 FQ	22 March 2003	list
(215606) 2003 SF₃₆	17 September 2003	list
(223225) 2003 DW₇	25 February 2003	list
(230667) 2003 SZ₂₀₀	25 September 2003	list
(259308) 2003 FY₁	23 March 2003	list
(259309) 2003 FB₂	23 March 2003	list
(259384) 2003 JX₁₀	4 May 2003	list
(259481) 2003 SY₂₀₀	25 September 2003	list
(298349) 2003 JW₁₀	4 May 2003	list
(307562) 2003 FX₁	23 March 2003	list
(382764) 2003 QP₁₀	22 August 2003	list
(393568) 2003 JY₁₀	4 May 2003	list
(474470) 2003 SA₂₀₁	25 September 2003	list

Jana Tichá facts for kids

List of discovered minor planets

See also