Benjamin Jekhowsky

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Asteroids discovered: 12

953 Painleva	April 29, 1921
976 Benjamina	March 27, 1922
977 Philippa	April 6, 1922
988 Appella	November 10, 1922
1013 Tombecka	January 17, 1924
1017 Jacqueline	February 4, 1924
1037 Davidweilla	October 29, 1924
1040 Klumpkea	January 20, 1925
1093 Freda	June 15, 1925
1181 Lilith	February 11, 1927
1328 Devota	October 21, 1925
3881 Doumergua	November 15, 1925

Benjamin Jekhowsky (Russian: Вениамин Павлович Жеховский, born 1881, died after 1953) was a Russian-Polish-French astronomer, born in Warsaw (at the time, Poland was part of the Russian empire).

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" (with a v). In modern English transliteration, his name would be written as Zhekhovskii or Zhekhovsky.

After attending Moscow University, he worked at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1912. Later he worked at the Algiers Observatory (at the time, Algeria was a colony of France), where he became known as a specialist in celestial mechanics.

He discovered a number of asteroids, and the asteroid 1606 Jekhovsky is named after him.