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Artyom Olegovich Novichonok (Russian: Артём Олегович Новичонок; 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 (H10) in Mayhill, New Mexico, and the Russian Ka-Dar Observatory (C32), 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 (Comet ISON), a hyperbolic comet
• P/2011 R3 (Novichonok), a Jupiter-family comet

List of discovered minor planets

See also

• List of minor planet discoverers § A. Novichonok

References

1. ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 12 January 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
2. ^ Andrea Tabor (8 February 2013). "An interview with Comet ISON's co-discoverer". Retrieved 21 February 2017.
3. Profile at Petrozavodsk State University
4. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: P/2011 R3 (Novichonok)" (2014-04-17 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

External links

• (Russian) Official site

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