Jana Tichá


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Jana Tichá is a Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kleť Observatory.
She specializes in discoveries of asteroids and comets especially near-Earth objects. The Minor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 104 numbered minor planets during 1995–2003. She is the chair of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature, which is responsible for approving names of asteroids. She works together with her husband Miloš Tichý at Kleť.
In her country she is also well known for her popularization activities. She is major contributor to the Czech web servers about and .
On 3 May 1996 the asteroid 5757 Tichá was named in her honour, while she named her discovery, the main-belt asteroid 8307 Peltan, after several members of her family.

List of discovered minor planets

7441 Láska30 July 1995 
7493 Hirzo24 October 1995
7608 Telegramia22 October 1995
8307 Peltan5 March 1995
8572 Nijo19 October 1996 
10234 Sixtygarden27 December 1997 
10403 Marcelgrün22 November 1997 
10872 Vaculík12 October 1996 
11105 Puchnarová24 October 1995
11128 Ostravia3 November 1996 
11141 Jindrawalter12 January 1997 
11144 Radiocommunicata2 February 1997 
11338 Schiele13 October 1996 
12833 Kamenný Újezd2 February 1997 
13229 Echion2 November 1997 
13792 Kuščynskyj7 November 1998 
14068 Hauserová21 April 1996 
14948 Bartuška16 January 1996 
15399 Hudec2 November 1997 
16083 Jorvik12 October 1999 

31238 Kroměříž21 February 1998 
33061 Václavmorava2 November 1997 
35233 Krčín26 May 1995 
35269 Idefix21 August 1996 
35446 Stáňa6 February 1998 
35977 Lexington3 July 1999 
35978 Arlington5 July 1999 
36035 Petrvok6 August 1999 
37699 Santini-Aichl13 January 1996 
37736 Jandl15 November 1996 
14 August 1999 
40206 Lhenice26 September 1998 
44530 Horáková25 December 1998 
44597 Thoreau6 August 1999 
46692 Taormina2 February 1997 
47144 Faulkes7 August 1999 
47294 Blanský les28 November 1999 
48794 Stolzová5 October 1997 
49698 Váchal1 November 1999 
50413 Petrginz27 February 2000 

79347 Medlov4 December 1996 
79354 Brundibár16 January 1997 
85389 Rosenauer22 August 1996 
85516 Vaclík2 November 1997 
1 February 1998 
1 February 1998 
87097 Lomaki7 June 2000 
91007 Ianfleming30 January 1998 
100735 Alpomořanská19 February 1998 
101721 Emanuelfritsch13 March 1999 
118214 Agnesediboemia12 January 1996 
129595 Vand2 November 1997 
133077 Jirsík4 May 2003 
136666 Seidel17 September 1995 
152750 Brloh21 January 1999 
171588 Náprstek26 November 1999 
192439 Cílek1 November 1997 
22 March 2003 
17 September 2003 
25 February 2003