Lupishko Dmitriy Fedorovich General data:
Born: 15.02.1942
Place of birth: Koshary village, Konotop district, Sumy region, Ukrainin SSR
Studied in: A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (since 1999 V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) (1969);
Key interests: physics of planets, minor bodies of the Solar System. ScD Thesis: Photometry and polarimetry of asteroids: observations and data analysis (1998 Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine);
Biography:
He was born on February 15, 1942 in the Koshary village of Konotop district of Sumy region of Ukrainian SSR.
In 1969, he graduated from A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University.
In 1975, he defended his candidate's thesis.
He studied Mars in the first half of the 1970s. Together with Aleksandrov Yu.V. and Lupishko T.A., he conducted photographic and photoelectric observations of Mars and their theoretical interpretation in major and near-Mars confrontations in 1971-1975.
The organizer of asteroid research in Astronomical Observatory of A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (photometry, polarimetry, axial rotation). He carried out the work together with I. M. Belskaya. He was the head of the "Asteroids" Problem Working Group of the Astro Council of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. International cooperation was established with minor planet researchers in Poland, the USA, Italy, and Sweden.
In 1998, he defended his doctoral thesis "Photometry and polarimetry of asteroids: results of observations and data analysis" at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
He heads the Department of Asteroid and Comet Physics at the Astronomy Research Institute of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. He is the deputy director of the Astronomical Observatory of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. He was the chairman of the "ASTEROIDS" Working Group of the Astro Council of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union.
Lupishko D.F. is the professor, a laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in 2010, the M. P. Barabashov Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the Prize of the Ukrainian Astronomical Association. Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine.
The field of his scientific work is the physics of planets and small bodies of the Solar System.
The minor planet 3210 got name Lupishko.
Main publications:
1. Physical properties of near-Earth asteroids / Lupishko D.F., Di Martino M. // Planet. Space Sci., 1998. vol. 46, No.1 p. 47-74
2. Вариации позиционного угла плоскости поляризации астероида 4 Веста / Лупишко Д.Ф., Ефимов Ю.C., Шаховской Н.М. // Астрономический вестник, 1999, том 33, № 1, с. 50-54
3. On the surface composition of the M-type asteroids / Lupishko D.F., Belskaya I.N. // Icarus, 1989, vol. 78, No.2, p. 395-401
4. Оптические свойства атмосферы Марса в период пылевой бури 1971 г. / Александров Ю.В., Лупишко Д.Ф. // Астрономический журнал, 1976, том 53, вып. 1, с. 162-169
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