Antonín Mrkos [SEP] date of death
Antonín Mrkos
Antonín Mrkos (; 27 January 1918 – 29 May 1996) was a Czech astronomer, born in Střemchoví, Czechoslovakia.
Biography.
Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became a staff member at the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Slovakia. It was from here that he carried out his extremely active cometary programme and became the discoverer of several unusual comets, the most famous of them the bright Comet 1957d.
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Mrkos
Mrkos may refer to:
- Antonín Mrkos (1918, Střemchoví, Dolní Loučky - 1996), a Czech astronomer
- 143P/Kowal-Mrkos, a periodic comet
- 18D/Perrine-Mrkos, a periodic comet
- 1832 Mrkos (provisional designation 1969 PC), an outer main belt asteroid discovered in 1969 by L. Chernykh
- 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, a periodic comet discovered on 1948
- Comet Mrkos (disambiguation)