Education
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
After returning to his home institute, Klim Ivanovych Churyumov of the Kiev National University"s Astronomical Observatory examined this photograph and found a cometary object near the edge of the plate, but assumed that this was Comas Solà. On 22 October, about a month after the photograph was taken, he discovered that the object could not be Comas Solà, because it was 2-3 degrees off the expected position. Further scrutiny produced a faint image of Comas Solà at its expected position on the plate, thus proving that the other object was a different comet.
By looking through all the material collected they found this new object on four more plates, dated 9 and 21 September.
Named after her.
On 11 September 1969 Gerasimenko while working at the Alma-Ata Astrophysical Institute, near Almaty, the then-capital city of Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union photographed the comet 32P/Comas Solà using 50-cm Maksutov telescope.