The astronomer Svetlana Gerasimenko died. Her name is Comet Churumova - Gerasimenko
In Dushanbe, at the age of 80, the astronomer Svetlana Gerasimenko died, the Institute of Astrophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan reports. Together with Klim Churyumov in 1969, she opened the 67r comet, called Churumov-Gerasimenko. Subsequently, the spacecraft was put on this comet for the first time in history. Asteroid (3945), opened in 1982 by astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, was also named after Svetlana Gerasimenko.