Antonín Mrkos

Antonín Mrkos

Born| (1918-01-27)27 January 1918

Střemchoví

Died| 29 May 1996(1996-05-29) (aged 78)

Prague

Known for| Comet and Minor planet observer discoverer
Minor planets discovered: 274[1] see § List of discovered minor planets

Antonín Mrkos (cs) (27 January 1918 – 29 May 1996) was a Czech astronomer.

## Contents

* 1 Biography
* 2 List of discovered minor planets
* 3 List of discovered comets
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Biography

Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became a staff member at the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia). It was from here that he carried out his extremely active cometary programme and became the discoverer of several unusual comets, the most famous of them the bright Comet 1957d.

He was the second Czech in Antarctica and the first Czechoslovak to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility as a member of the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1957–1959). The Czechoslovak flag was the second flag raised after the flag of the USSR. He returned to Antarctica as the head of the four-member Czechoslovak crew in the seventh Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1961-1963). He was studying auroras among other things.[2]

He was invited for what would have been his third expedition to the Antarctic but could not participate because of an almost fatal accident. It is thought someone tried to injure or to kill him by adding a bottle of strongly concentrated detergent among his other bottles of mineral water. Since this accident he could only eat liquid meals for the rest of his life.[citation needed]

In 1965 he became director of Kleť Observatory.[2] Beginning in 1968 he made photographic observations at Kleť and extended this activity to minor planets in 1977. For many years he was the most regular contributor of data to the Minor Planet Center. He was President of Commission 6 from 1985 until 1988 (and vice president from 1982 until 1985). He was associate professor at the Charles University in Prague and the University of South Bohemia. Mrkos died in 1996 in Prague, aged 78.[citation needed]

He discovered or co-discovered thirteen comets. Among these were the periodic comets 18D/Perrine–Mrkos, 45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková, 124P/Mrkos and 143P/Kowal–Mrkos. He also discovered the bright non-periodic comet C/1957 P1 (or, in the nomenclature of the time, comet 1957d). He discovered a number of asteroids (273 in total), including the Amor asteroid 5797 Bivoj and Trojan asteroid 3451 Mentor.[citation needed]

Mrkos named asteroids 6758 Jesseowens in honour of Jesse Owens and 2747 Český Krumlov after the historic town of the same name. Another main-belt asteroid, 3357 Tolstikov, was named in honour of Yevgeny Tolstikov with whom he had explored the Antarctic in his youth. Fellow astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh named 1832 Mrkos in his honour, while Mrkos gratified her and her husband Nikolai with 2325 Chernykh.[citation needed]

## List of discovered minor planets

2199 Kleť | 6 June 1978 | list

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2304 Slavia | 18 May 1979 | list
2325 Chernykh | 25 September 1979 | list
2367 Praha | 8 January 1981 | list
2403 Šumava | 25 September 1979 | list
2404 Antarctica | 1 October 1980 | list
2552 Remek | 24 September 1978 | list
2559 Svoboda | 23 October 1981 | list
2747 Český Krumlov | 19 February 1980 | list
2811 Střemchoví | 10 May 1980 | list
2889 Brno | 17 November 1981 | list
2936 Nechvíle | 17 September 1979 | list
2971 Mohr | 30 December 1980 | list
3003 Konček | 28 December 1983 | list
3017 Petrovič | 25 October 1981 | list
3130 Hillary | 20 December 1981 | list
3137 Horky | 16 September 1982 | list
3141 Buchar | 2 September 1984 | list
3168 Lomnický Štít | 1 December 1980 | list
3257 Hanzlík | 15 April 1982 | list
3276 Porta Coeli | 15 September 1982 | list
3278 Běhounek | 27 January 1984 | list
3313 Mendel | 19 February 1980 | list
3324 Avsyuk | 4 February 1983 | list
3326 Agafonikov | 20 March 1985 | list
3334 Somov | 20 December 1981 | list

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3339 Treshnikov | 6 June 1978 | list
3357 Tolstikov | 21 March 1984 | list
3364 Zdenka | 5 April 1984 | list
3395 Jitka | 20 October 1985 | list
3451 Mentor | 19 April 1984 | list
3490 Šolc | 20 September 1984 | list
3550 Link | 20 December 1981 | list
3571 Milanštefánik | 15 March 1982 | list
3629 Lebedinskij | 21 November 1982 | list
3630 Lubomír | 28 August 1984 | list
3636 Pajdušáková | 17 October 1982 | list
3645 Fabini | 28 August 1981 | list
3665 Fitzgerald | 19 March 1979 | list
3701 Purkyně | 20 February 1985 | list
3715 Štohl | 19 February 1980 | list
3716 Petzval | 2 October 1980 | list
3727 Maxhell | 7 August 1981 | list
3781 Dufek | 2 September 1986 | list
3791 Marci | 17 November 1981 | list
3827 Zdeněkhorský | 3 November 1986 | list
3847 Šindel | 16 February 1982 | list
3887 Gerstner | 22 August 1985 | list
3905 Doppler | 28 August 1984 | list
3949 Mach | 20 October 1985 | list
3979 Brorsen | 8 November 1983 | list

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3980 Hviezdoslav | 4 December 1983 | list
3981 Stodola | 26 January 1984 | list
3983 Sakiko | 20 September 1984 | list
3993 Šorm | 4 November 1988 | list
4018 Bratislava | 30 December 1980 | list
4054 Turnov | 5 October 1983 | list
4090 Říšehvězd | 2 September 1986 | list
4176 Sudek | 24 February 1987 | list
4238 Audrey | 13 April 1980 | list
4249 Křemže | 29 September 1984 | list
4277 Holubov | 15 January 1982 | list
4287 Třísov | 7 September 1989 | list
4339 Almamater | 20 October 1985 | list
4405 Otava | 21 August 1987 | list
4408 Zlatá Koruna | 4 October 1988 | list
4552 Nabelek | 11 May 1980 | list
4554 Fanynka | 28 October 1986 | list
4610 Kájov | 26 March 1989 | list
4662 Runk | 19 April 1984 | list
4663 Falta | 27 September 1984 | list
4671 Drtikol | 10 January 1988 | list
4691 Toyen | 7 October 1983 | list
4698 Jizera | 4 September 1986 | list
4702 Berounka | 23 April 1987 | list
4801 Ohře | 22 October 1989 | list

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4823 Libenice | 4 October 1986 | list
4824 Stradonice | 25 November 1986 | list
5026 Martes | 22 August 1987 | list
5089 Nádherná | 25 September 1979 | list
5102 Benfranklin | 2 September 1986 | list
5103 Diviš | 4 September 1986 | list
5122 Mucha | 3 January 1989 | list
5202 Charleseliot | 5 December 1983 | list
5250 Jas | 21 August 1984 | list
5318 Dientzenhofer | 21 April 1985 | list
5363 Kupka | 19 October 1979 | list
5418 Joyce | 29 August 1981 | list
5425 Vojtěch | 20 September 1984 | list
5552 Studnička | 16 September 1982 | list
5573 Hilarydownes | 24 August 1981 | list
5583 Braunerová | 5 March 1989 | list
5668 Foucault | 22 March 1984 | list
5712 Funke | 25 September 1979 | list
5719 Křižík | 7 September 1983 | list
5797 Bivoj | 13 January 1980 | list
5800 Pollock | 16 October 1982 | list
5801 Vasarely | 26 January 1984 | list
5803 Ötzi | 21 July 1984 | list
5804 Bambinidipraga | 9 September 1985 | list
5865 Qualytemocrina | 31 August 1984 | list

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5891 Gehrig | 22 September 1981 | list
5894 Telč | 14 September 1982 | list
5897 Novotná | 29 September 1984 | list
5910 Zátopek | 29 November 1989 | list
5946 Hrozný | 28 October 1984 | list
5958 Barrande | 29 January 1989 | list
5997 Dirac | 1 October 1983 | list
5998 Sitenský | 2 September 1986 | list
6060 Doudleby | 19 February 1980 | list
6064 Holašovice | 23 April 1987 | list
6149 Pelčák | 25 September 1979 | list
6175 Cori | 4 December 1983 | list
6221 Ducentesima | 13 April 1980 | list
6223 Dahl | 3 September 1980 | list
6231 Hundertwasser | 20 March 1985 | list
6266 Letzel | 4 October 1986 | list
6281 Strnad | 16 September 1980 | list
6377 Cagney | 25 June 1987 | list
6379 Vrba | 15 November 1987 | list
6385 Martindavid | 5 March 1989 | list
6433 Enya | 18 November 1978 | list
6440 Ransome | 8 September 1988 | list
6441 Milenajesenská | 9 September 1988 | list
6469 Armstrong | 14 August 1982 | list
6470 Aldrin | 14 September 1982 | list

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6471 Collins | 4 March 1983 | list
6481 Tenzing | 9 September 1988 | list
6508 Rolčík | 22 August 1982 | list
6516 Gruss | 3 October 1988 | list
6540 Stepling | 16 September 1982 | list
6542 Jacquescousteau | 15 February 1985 | list
6546 Kaye | 24 February 1987 | list
6550 Parléř | 4 November 1988 | list
6556 Arcimboldo | 29 December 1989 | list
6581 Sobers | 22 September 1981 | list
6583 Destinn | 21 February 1984 | list
6586 Seydler | 28 October 1984 | list
6594 Tasman | 25 June 1987 | list
6596 Bittner | 15 November 1987 | list
6597 Kreil | 9 January 1988 | list
6600 Qwerty | 17 August 1988 | list
6701 Warhol | 14 January 1988 | list
6712 Hornstein | 23 February 1990 | list
6758 Jesseowens | 13 April 1980 | list
6768 Mathiasbraun | 7 September 1983 | list
6769 Brokoff | 15 February 1985 | list
6774 Vladheinrich | 4 November 1988 | list
6779 Perrine | 20 February 1990 | list
6817 Pest | 20 January 1982 | list
6824 Mallory | 8 September 1988 | list

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6825 Irvine | 4 October 1988 | list
6897 Tabei | 15 November 1987 | list
(7080) 1986 RS1 | 5 September 1986 | list
7107 Peiser | 15 August 1980 | list
7114 Weinek | 29 November 1986 | list
7115 Franciscuszeno | 29 November 1986 | list
7118 Kuklov | 4 November 1988 | list
7171 Arthurkraus | 13 January 1988 | list
7226 Kryl | 21 August 1984 | list
7232 Nabokov | 20 October 1985 | list
7328 Casanova | 20 September 1984 | list
7332 Ponrepo | 4 December 1986 | list
7334 Sciurus | 17 August 1988 | list
7391 Strouhal | 8 November 1983 | list
7398 Walsh | 3 November 1986 | list
7403 Choustník | 14 January 1988 | list
7464 Vipera | 15 November 1987 | list
7635 Carolinesmith | 6 November 1983 | list
7644 Cslewis | 4 November 1988 | list
7645 Pons | 4 January 1989 | list
7694 Krasetín | 29 September 1983 | list
7695 Přemysl | 27 November 1984 | list
7699 Božek | 2 February 1989 | list
7701 Zrzavý | 14 October 1990 | list
7742 Altamira | 20 October 1985 | list

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7820 Ianlyon | 14 October 1990 | list
7859 Lhasa | 19 October 1979 | list
7864 Borucki | 14 March 1982 | list
7867 Burian | 20 September 1984 | list
7927 Jamiegilmour | 29 November 1986 | list
7993 Johnbridges | 16 October 1982 | list
8001 Ramsden | 4 October 1986 | list
8002 Tonyevans | 4 December 1986 | list
8022 Scottcrossfield | 10 November 1990 | list
8143 Nezval | 11 November 1982 | list
8152 Martinlee | 3 November 1986 | list
(8153) 1986 WO1 | 25 November 1986 | list
8249 Gershwin | 13 April 1980 | list
8258 McCracken | 15 September 1982 | list
8267 Kiss | 4 October 1986 | list
8333 Medina | 7 November 1982 | list
8336 Šafařík | 27 September 1984 | list
8343 Tugendhat | 4 October 1986 | list
8479 Held | 29 April 1987 | list
8639 Vonšovský | 3 November 1986 | list
(8650) 1989 TJ2 | 5 October 1989 | list
9007 James Bond | 5 October 1983 | list
9008 Bohšternberk | 27 January 1984 | list
9011 Angelou | 20 September 1984 | list
9027 Graps | 4 November 1988 | list

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9028 Konrádbeneš | 26 January 1989 | list
(9031) 1989 WG4 | 29 November 1989 | list
(9292) 1982 UE2 | 16 October 1982 | list
(9538) 1982 UM2 | 20 October 1982 | list
9551 Kazi | 20 October 1985 | list
(9552) 1985 UY | 24 October 1985 | list
(9575) 1989 BW1 | 29 January 1989 | list
(9729) 1981 RQ | 7 September 1981 | list
9931 Herbhauptman | 18 April 1985 | list
10026 Sophiexeon | 3 September 1980 | list
10037 Raypickard | 26 January 1984 | list
(10291) 1985 UT | 20 October 1985 | list
(10294) 1988 AA2 | 14 January 1988 | list
(10705) 1981 SL | 22 September 1981 | list
11019 Hansrott | 25 April 1984 | list
11020 Orwell | 31 July 1984 | list
11026 Greatbotkin | 2 September 1986 | list
(11283) 1989 UX4 | 25 October 1989 | list
(11477) 1984 SY1 | 29 September 1984 | list
(11493) 1988 VN5 | 4 November 1988 | list
(11825) 1982 UW1 | 16 October 1982 | list
11830 Jessenius | 2 May 1984 | list
(11841) 1986 VW | 3 November 1986 | list
(12692) 1989 BV1 | 29 January 1989 | list
(12698) 1989 US4 | 22 October 1989 | list

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(13491) 1984 UJ1 | 28 October 1984 | list
(13501) 1987 VR | 15 November 1987 | list
(13913) 1979 SO | 25 September 1979 | list
(14363) 1988 RB2 | 8 September 1988 | list
(14379) 1989 UM4 | 22 October 1989 | list
(15222) 1982 FL1 | 24 March 1982 | list
(15233) 1987 WU4 | 26 November 1987 | list
(16448) 1989 RV2 | 7 September 1989 | list
(17404) 1986 TZ3 | 4 October 1986 | list
17407 Teige | 14 October 1987 | list
(18300) 1979 PA | 14 August 1979 | list
(18325) 1984 SB2 | 29 September 1984 | list
(18328) 1985 UU | 20 October 1985 | list
(19124) 1986 TH3 | 4 October 1986 | list
19129 Loos | 10 January 1988 | list
(19184) 1991 TB6 | 6 October 1991 | list
20964 Mons Naklethi | 16 October 1977 | list
20969 Samo | 17 September 1979 | list
22260 Ur | 19 October 1979 | list
(22274) 1981 RN | 7 September 1981 | list
(22284) 1986 SH | 30 September 1986 | list
(22288) 1988 TR2 | 11 October 1988 | list
(22307) 1990 SU4 | 16 September 1990 | list
23437 Šíma | 27 September 1984 | list
(24619) 1979 DA | 26 February 1979 | list

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(24661) 1988 GQ | 12 April 1988 | list
24662 Gryll | 14 April 1988 | list
24695 Štyrský | 16 September 1990 | list
(26807) 1982 RK1 | 14 September 1982 | list
(27702) 1984 SE1 | 27 September 1984 | list
(27703) 1984 SA2 | 29 September 1984 | list
(30770) 1984 SL4 | 27 September 1984 | list
(30772) 1986 RJ1 | 2 September 1986 | list
(32774) 1986 VZ | 3 November 1986 | list
(35086) 1990 TW8 | 14 October 1990 | list
(37559) 1985 UR | 20 October 1985 | list
(39514) 1986 TV3 | 4 October 1986 | list
(39515) 1986 XD5 | 4 December 1986 | list
(46546) 1988 VM5 | 4 November 1988 | list
(52268) 1986 WU | 25 November 1986 | list
(58140) 1981 SN | 22 September 1981 | list
(65668) 1988 AX1 | 14 January 1988 | list
(65686) 1990 TN8 | 14 October 1990 | list
(85155) 1986 VH7 | 7 November 1986 | list
(85164) 1988 TG2 | 3 October 1988 | list
(85167) 1989 RS2 | 7 September 1989 | list
(100012) 1989 BC1 | 25 January 1989 | list
217628 Lugh | 17 April 1990 | list

## List of discovered comets

Comets discovered: 13  C/1947 Y1 (Mrkos) | 20 December 1947 | MPC * JPL

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C/1948 E1 (Pajdušáková–Mrkos) | 13 March 1948 | MPC * JPL
45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková | 7 December 1948 | MPC * JPL
C/1952 H1 (Mrkos) | 27 April 1952 | MPC * JPL
C/1952 W1 (Mrkos) | 28 November 1952 | MPC * JPL
C/1953 G1 (Mrkos–Honda) | 12 April 1953 | MPC * JPL
C/1955 L1 (Mrkos) | 12 June 1955 | MPC * JPL
18D/Perrine–Mrkos | 19 October 1955 | MPC * JPL
C/1956 E1 (Mrkos) | 12 March 1956 | MPC * JPL
C/1957 P1 (Mrkos) | 29 July 1957 | MPC * JPL
C/1959 X1 (Mrkos) | 3 December 1959 | MPC * JPL
143P/Kowal–Mrkos | 2 May 1984 | MPC * JPL
124P/Mrkos | 16 March 1991 | MPC * JPL

## See also

* List of minor planet discoverers § A. Mrkos

## References

1. ↑ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 11 July 2018. https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "První český vědec na Antarktidě: Výzkum v nejdrsnějších podmínkách na Zemi" by Hynek Adámek, National Geographic Czech, 18 May 2012 (in Czech)

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