Seppo Mikkola

{{Short description|Finnish astronomer}} '''Seppo Mikkola''' (born 1947) is a Finnish astronomer. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Turku and staff member at Tuorla Observatory.

Mikkola is a leading expert in celestial mechanics. He has made fundamental contributions to the theory of regularization of motion in the gravitational N-body problem.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mikkola|first=Seppo |title=The Cambridge N-Body Lectures |year=2008|chapter=Regular Algorithms for the Few-Body Problem|series=Lecture Notes in Physics|volume=760|pages=31–58|doi=10.1007/978-1-4020-8431-7_2|isbn=978-1-4020-8430-0 |bibcode=2008LNP...760...31M }}</ref> Mikkola was a member of the team that determined the unusual orbit of 3753 Cruithne. He was also the a member of the team that identified 524522 Zoozve as a quasi-satellite of Venus, in 2004, two years after the actual discovery of the object.<ref name=press>{{cite web |url=https://www.astro.utu.fi/tuorla/new/venusqs.shtml |title=Discovery of the first quasi-satellite of Venus |work=Tuorla Observatory |date=17 August 2004 |access-date=29 January 2024 |archive-date=9 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609020651/https://www.astro.utu.fi/tuorla/new/venusqs.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=paper>{{cite journal |title=Asteroid 2002 VE68, a quasi-satellite of Venus |bibcode=2004MNRAS.351L..63M |last1=Mikkola |first1=S. |last2=Brasser |first2=R. |last3=Wiegert |first3=P. |last4=Innanen |first4=K. |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |date=2004 |volume=351 |issue=3 |pages=L63–L65 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07994.x |doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Named after him== * [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=3381+Mikkola Asteroid 3381 Mikkola]

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==External links== * [http://www.astro.utu.fi/staff/MikkolaSeppo.shtml Seppo Mikkola's home page]

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