Grigory Neujmin


Grigory Nikolayevich Neujmin was a Georgian–Russian astronomer, native of Tbilisi in Georgia, and a discoverer of numerous minor planets as well as 6 periodic and a hyperbolic comet at the Pulkovo and Simeiz Observatories during the first half of the 20th century.

Discoveries

The Minor Planet Center credits his discoveries under the name "G. N. Neujmin", and his surname appears this way in the literature. However, the modern English transliteration of his name would be Neuymin.
Neujmin is credited with the discovery of 74 asteroids, and notably 951 Gaspra and 762 Pulcova.
He also discovered and co-discovered 6 Jupiter-family comets, namely 25D/Neujmin, 28P/Neujmin, 42P/Neujmin, 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte and 58P/Jackson–Neujmin, as well as C/1914 M1, a hyperbolic comet.

Awards Honors

He received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour on 10 June 1945. The lunar crater Neujmin is named in his honour, as is 1129 Neujmina, a main-belt asteroid of the Eos family discovered by Praskovjya Parkhomenko at Simeiz Observatory in 1929.

List of discovered minor planets

787 Moskva20 April 1914
789 Lena24 June 1914
791 Ani29 June 1914
814 Tauris2 January 1916
824 Anastasia25 March 1916
825 Tanina27 March 1916
829 Academia25 August 1916
830 Petropolitana25 August 1916
847 Agnia2 September 1915
848 Inna5 September 1915

1135 Colchis3 October 1929
1137 Raïssa27 October 1929
1140 Crimea30 December 1929
1146 Biarmia7 May 1929
1147 Stavropolis11 June 1929
1158 Luda31 August 1929
1189 Terentia17 September 1930
1190 Pelagia20 September 1930
1202 Marina13 September 1931
1210 Morosovia6 June 1931

1331 Solvejg25 August 1933
1347 Patria6 November 1931
1351 Uzbekistania5 October 1934
1379 Lomonosowa19 March 1936
1386 Storeria28 July 1935
1403 Idelsonia13 August 1936
1434 Margot19 March 1936
1459 Magnya4 November 1937
1484 Postrema29 April 1938
1590 Tsiolkovskaja1 July 1933

2536 Kozyrev15 August 1939
3036 Krat11 October 1937
3761 Romanskaya25 July 1936
4420 Alandreev15 August 1936