Jana Tichá

Jana Tichá (born 1965 in České Budějovice) is a Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

She specializes in discoveries of asteroids and comets especially near-Earth objects (NEOs).

[1] She is the chair of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), which is responsible for approving names of asteroids.

She is major contributor to the Czech web servers about asteroids and comets.

27128),[2][3] while she named her discovery, the main-belt asteroid 8307 Peltan, after several members of her family.