Margita Kresáková


Margita Kresáková was a Slovak astronomer.
She discovered comet C/1954 O1 on 28 July 1954, becoming just the second woman to discover a comet at the Skalnaté pleso Observatory. She married Slovak astronomer Ľubor Kresák in 1954 and they had one daughter.
Kresáková was a member of the International Astronomical Union. She wrote a 1966 paper on meteor stream activity.
The minor planet 9821 Gitakresáková is named after her.