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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 ex-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 (), 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 7493 Hirzo 24 October 1995 7608 Telegramia 22 October 1995 8307 Peltan 5 March 1995 8572 Nijo 19 October 1996 10234 Sixtygarden 27 December 1997 10403 Marcelgrün 22 November 1997 10872 Vaculík 12 October 1996 11105 Puchnarová 24 October 1995 11128 Ostravia 3 November 1996 11141 Jindrawalter 12 January 1997 11144 Radiocommunicata 2 February 1997 11338 Schiele 13 October 1996 12010 Kovářov 18 October 1996 12833 Kamenný Újezd 2 February 1997 13229 Echion 2 November 1997 13792 Kuščynskyj 7 November 1998 14068 Hauserová 21 April 1996 14541 Sacrobosco 20 September 1997 14948 Bartuška 16 January 1996 15399 Hudec 2 November 1997 16083 Jorvik 12 October 1999 16709 Auratian 29 September 1995 16742 Zink 21 July 1996 16794 Cucullia 2 February 1997 17167 Olgarozanova 4 July 1999 18456 Mišík 8 March 1995 18841 Hruška 6 September 1999 19384 Winton 6 February 1998 20164 Janzajíc 9 November 1996 21873 Jindřichůvhradec 29 October 1999 21270 Otokar 19 July 1996 22442 Blaha 14 October 1996 22450 Nové Hrady 3 November 1996 25258 Nathaniel 7 November 1998 26314 Škvorecký 16 October 1998 26340 Evamarková 13 December 1998 26969 Biver 20 September 1997 27087 Tillmannmohr 24 October 1998 28220 York 28 December 1998 29477 Zdíkšíma 31 October 1997 29738 Ivobudil 23 January 1999 31232 Slavonice 1 February 1998 31238 Kroměříž 21 February 1998 33061 Václavmorava 2 November 1997 35233 Krčín 26 May 1995 35269 Idefix 21 August 1996 35446 Stáňa 6 February 1998 35977 Lexington 3 July 1999 35978 Arlington 5 July 1999 36035 Petrvok 6 August 1999 37699 Santini-Aichl 13 January 1996 37736 Jandl 15 November 1996 14 August 1999 40206 Lhenice 26 September 1998 44530 Horáková 25 December 1998 44597 Thoreau 6 August 1999 46692 Taormina 2 February 1997 47144 Faulkes 7 August 1999 47294 Blanský les 28 November 1999 48794 Stolzová 5 October 1997 49698 Váchal 1 November 1999 50413 Petrginz 27 February 2000 52665 Brianmay 30 January 1998 53093 La Orotava 28 December 1998 55082 Xlendi 25 August 2001 56329 Tarxien 28 November 1999 56422 Mnajdra 2 April 2000 58607 Wenzel 19 October 1997 58664 IYAMMIX 21 December 1997 58682 Alenašolcová 10 January 1998 59001 Senftenberg 26 September 1998 59797 Píšala 7 August 1999 59830 Reynek 10 September 1999 61208 Stonařov 30 July 2000 66934 Kálalová 26 November 1999 69469 Krumbenowe 16 November 1996 70679 Urzidil 30 October 1999 70936 Kámen 28 November 1999 74024 Hrabě 23 April 1998 74370 Kolářjan 9 December 1998 75223 Wupatki 28 November 1999 76628 Kozí Hrádek 22 April 2000 79347 Medlov 4 December 1996 79354 Brundibár 16 January 1997 85389 Rosenauer 22 August 1996 85516 Vaclík 2 November 1997 1 February 1998 1 February 1998 87097 Lomaki 7 June 2000 91007 Ianfleming 30 January 1998 100735 Alpomořanská 19 February 1998 101721 Emanuelfritsch 13 March 1999 118214 Agnesediboemia 12 January 1996 129595 Vand 2 November 1997 133077 Jirsík 4 May 2003 136666 Seidel 17 September 1995 152750 Brloh 21 January 1999 171588 Náprstek 26 November 1999 192439 Cílek 1 November 1997 22 March 2003 17 September 2003 25 February 2003 25 September 2003 23 March 2003 23 March 2003 4 May 2003 25 September 2003 4 May 2003 23 March 2003 22 August 2003 4 May 2003 25 September 2003 Co-discovery made with: M. Tichý
References
Zdeněk Suchan, Cena Zdeňka Kvíze za rok 2004, in Kosmické rozhledy vol. 6/2004, page 38
External links Staff webpage on the web of the Kleť observatory