Benjamin Jekhowsky


953 PainlevaApril 29, 1921
976 BenjaminaMarch 27, 1922
977 PhilippaApril 6, 1922
988 AppellaNovember 10, 1922
1013 TombeckaJanuary 17, 1924
1017 JacquelineFebruary 4, 1924
1037 DavidweillaOctober 29, 1924
1040 KlumpkeaJanuary 20, 1925
1093 FredaJune 15, 1925
1181 LilithFebruary 11, 1927
1328 DevotaOctober 21, 1925
3881 DoumerguaNovember 15, 1925

Benjamin Jekhowsky, died in 1975, Encausse-les-Thermes ) was a Russian–French astronomer, born in Saint-Petersburg in a noble family of a Russian railroad official.
After attending Moscow University, he worked at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1912. Later he worked at the Algiers Observatory, where he became known as a specialist in celestial mechanics. 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". In modern English transliteration, his name would be written as Zhekhovskii or Zhekhovsky.
He discovered 12 numbered minor planets, made more than 190 scientific publications and the asteroid 1606 Jekhovsky is named after him.