Dmitrij F. Lupishko

Dmitrij F. Lupishko (born 1942) is a Ukrainian astronomer, founder of the Kharkiv asteroid science school, head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets at Kharkiv Observatory (1989-2012),[1] recipient of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2010).

In 1975, Dmitry Lupishko defended his PhD thesis "Absolute integral and surface photometry of Mars in the opposition of 1971".

In the following years, Dmitrij Lupishko organized and held four meetings of this working group, as well as two all-USSR seminars.

He improved the values of asteroid diameters and albedos obtained by the infrared space telescope IRAS.

Dmitrij Lupishko also created the polarimetric asteroid database, which is now a part of the Planetary Data System.

Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets of Kharkiv Institute of Astronomy . In the first row, Dmitry Lupishko (second from left) and his students Yurij N. Krugly , Irina Belskaya (current head of the Department), Vasilij G. Shevchenko , Vasilij Chiorny. In the second row are standing the junior employees of the Department, students of Lupishko's students.