Comet ISON [SEP] discoverer or inventor
Comet ISON
Comet ISON, formally known as C/2012 S1, was a sungrazing comet discovered on 21 September 2012 by Vitaly Nevsky (Виталий Невский, Vitebsk, Belarus) and Artyom Novichonok (Артём Новичонок, Kondopoga, Russia).
History.
The discovery was made using the reflector of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) near Kislovodsk, Russia. Data processing was carried out by automated asteroid-discovery program CoLiTec. Precovery images by the Mount Lemmon Survey from 28 December 2011 and by Pan-STARRS from 28
Alphabetical list L.
- Anders Johan Lexell, astronomer and mathematician; researcher of celestial mechanics and comet astronomy; proved that Uranus is a planet rather than a comet
- Andrei Linde, created the Universe chaotic inflation theory
- Evgeny Lifshitz, an author of the BKL singularity model of the Universe evolution
- Mikhail Lomonosov polymath, inventor of the off-axis reflecting telescope, discoverer of the atmosphere of Venus
- Mikhail Lyapunov, astronomer
- Kronid Lyubarsky, worked on the Soviet program of interplanetary exploration of Mars