Artyom Novichonok

Artyom Olegovich Novichonok (Russian: Артём Олегович Новичонок; born 27 March 1988 in Kondopoga, Soviet Union 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.