Artyom Novichonok, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Artyom Novichonok

amateur astronomer

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1988

Place of Birth: Kondopoga, Russia

Profession: astronomer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Artyom Olegovich Novichonok (Russian: ????? ???????? ?????????; 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.