Artyom Novichonok

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Artyom Olegovich Novichonok (; born 27 March 1988 in Kondopoga, Soviet Union (now Russia) is a Russian astronomer. Since 2009, the Minor Planet Center credits him with several minor planets, co-discovered in collaboration with astronomers Dmitry Chestnov, Vladimir Gerke and Leonid Elenin at the American Tzec Maun Observatory in Mayhill, New Mexico, and the Russian Ka-Dar Observatory , TAU Station, in Nizhny Arkhyz, respectively.

He also discovered the periodic comet P/2011 R3 (Novichonok) in 2011, and he was part of the group that discovered the hyperbolic Comet ISON in September 2012, with Vitaly Nevsky at Kondopoga, Russia.

Discoveries

Comets

Together with Vitali Neveski, he discovered the comets: C/2012 S1 (ISON), a hyperbolic cometProfile at Petrozavodsk State University 408P/Novichonok–Gerke, formerly known as P/2011 R3, a Jupiter-family comet

List of discovered minor planets

228165 Mezentsev 26 September 2009 231649 Korotkiy 17 November 2009 17 November 2009 25 November 2009 274981 Petrsu 12 October 2009 17 December 2009 17 October 2009 17 November 2009 17 October 2009 17 November 2009 28 September 2011 18 November 2009 16 October 2010 9 November 2009 18 October 2009 20 November 2009 21 November 2012 9 January 2010 9 November 2009 11 January 2010 Co-discovery made with: D. Chestnov V. Gerke L. Elenin

See also

References

External links (Russian) Official site