Ludmila Pajdusáková (29 June 1916 - 6 October 1979) was a Slovak astronomer. She specialised in solar astronomy, and also discovered a number of comets, including periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusáková, and the non-periodic C/1946 K1 (Pajdusáková-Rotbart-Weber), C/1948 E1 (Pajdusáková-Mrkos), C/1951 C1 (Pajdusáková) and C/1953 X1 (Pajdusáková). Read more