1859 Kovalevskaya
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1859 Kovalevskaya is an asteroid discovered September 4, 1972 by L. V. Zhuravleva. The asteroid was named in honor of Sofia Kovalevskaya
, a Russian mathematician. It is an outer main-belt asteroid with a diameter of 46.02 kilometers.
Zhuravleva is ranked 43 in Harvard's ranking of those who discovered minor planets. She discovered 200 such bodies, 13 of which were co-discoveries, between 1972 and 1992.
1859 Kovalevskaya (1972 RS2)
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya , was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe.She was also one of the first females to...
, a Russian mathematician. It is an outer main-belt asteroid with a diameter of 46.02 kilometers.
Zhuravleva is ranked 43 in Harvard's ranking of those who discovered minor planets. She discovered 200 such bodies, 13 of which were co-discoveries, between 1972 and 1992.
1859 Kovalevskaya (1972 RS2)
- absolute magnitude 10.20 mag
- diameter 46.02 km
- geometric albedo albedo 0.0694