Jana Tichá Explained
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 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 |   |
18456 Mišík | 8 March 1995 |   |
18841 Hruška | 6 September 1999 |   |
19384 Winton | 6 February 1998 |   |
20164 Janzajíc | 9 November 1996 |   |
21270 Otokar | 19 July 1996 |   |
21873 Jindřichůvhradec | 29 October 1999 |   |
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 | |
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