From 1966 to 1988, Tamara Smirnova was a staff member of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at
Leningrad. She is credited by the
Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 135 numbered
minor planets during 1966–1984. She also co-discovered the periodic comet
74P/Smirnova-Chernykh, along with
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh. The main-belt asteroid
5540 Smirnova, discovered by herself in 1971, was named in her honor following a proposal by the
Institute of Theoretical Astronomy. Naming citation was published on 17 March 1995 ().
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L. I. Chernykh == See also ==