Artyom Novichonok


Artyom Olegovich Novichonok 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 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:
228165 Mezentsev26 September 2009
231649 Korotkiy17 November 2009
17 November 2009
25 November 2009
274981 Petrsu12 October 2009
17 December 2009
17 October 2009
17 November 2009
17 October 2009
17 November 2009
28 September 2011
18 November 2009