Antonín Mrkos
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January 27 1918 – May 29 1996) was a Czech astronomer.
He spent 18 months in Antarctica as part of a Soviet expedition in the 1950s, studying auroras among other things.
He worked at Skalnaté Pleso Observatory.
Discovered or co-discovered the periodic comets 18D/Perrine-Mrkos, 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, 124P/Mrkos and 143P/Kowal-Mrkos. Also discovered the bright non-periodic comet C/1957 P1 (or, in the nomenclature of the time, Comet 1957d).
Discovered a number of asteroids, including the Amor asteroid 5797 Bivoj and the Trojan asteroid 3451 Mentor. 1832 Mrkos is named in his honour.
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