Pelageya Shajn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian astronomer
Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1894
Place of Birth: Perm Krai, Russia
Date of Death: 27-Aug-1956
Profession: astronomer
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Pelageya Shajn
- Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova (??????? ????????? ????) (1894 – 27 August 1956), was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at the Simeiz Observatory in 1928.
- Pelageya also discovered numerous variable stars and co-discovered the periodic, Jupiter-family comet 61P/Shajn–Schaldach.
- She was married to prominent Soviet astronomer Grigory Shajn.
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