Pelageya Shajn
Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova, was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at the Simeiz Observatory in 1928. Pelageya also discovered numerous variable stars and co-discovered the periodic, Jupiter-family comet 61P/Shajn–Schaldach. She was married to prominent Soviet astronomer Grigory Shajn.
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Female
Date of Birth
April 19th, 1894
Age
130
Birth Place
Russia
Date of Death
August 27th, 1956
Died Aged
62
Star Sign
Aries
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