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Benjamin Jekhowsky (Вениамин Павлович Жеховский) (1881 – after 1953 ) was a Russian-French astronomer , born in Warsaw (at the time, Poland was part of the Russian empire ).
After 1934 , he appears to have begun signing scientific articles as Benjamin de Jekhowsky . The Minor Planet Center credits his discoveries under the name "B. Jekhovsky " (with a v ). In modern English transliteration, his name would be written as Zhekhovskii or Zhekhovsky.
After attending Moscow University , he worked at the Paris Observatory beginning in Algeria was a colony of France ), where he became known as a specialist in celestial mechanics .
He discovered a number of asteroids , and the asteroid 1606 Jekhovsky is named after him.
Asteroids discovered: 12 953 Painleva April 29 , 1921 976 Benjamina March 27 , 1922 977 Philippa April 6 1922 988 Appella November 10 , 1922 1013 Tombecka January 17 , 1924 1017 Jacqueline February 4 1924 1037 Davidweilla October 29 , 1924 1040 Klumpkea January 20 , 1925 1093 Freda June 15 , 1925 1181 Lilith February 11 , 1927 1328 Devota October 21 , 1925 3881 Doumergua November 15 , 1925