Artyom Novichonok

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.