Dmitry Chestnov
# Dmitry Chestnov

Minor planets discovered: 18 :

* see § List of discovered minor planets

Dmitry Nikolayevich Chestnov (also known as Dmitrij Nikolaevič Čestnov; Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Честнов) is a Russian astronomer, observer and photometrist of comets and discoverer of minor planets. He lives in Saransk, the capital city of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia.

He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of several minor planets during 2009–2010, all in collaboration with Russian astronomer and colleague Artyom Novichonok at Tzec Maun Observatory (H10) in Mayhill, New Mexico.

According to the Comet Observation database (COBS), which is maintained by the Slovenian Črni Vrh Observatory, Dmitry Chestnov has submitted dozens of observations of comets under his user code "CHE09". Several cometary observations, including those of the hyperbolic comet C/2009 O4 (HILL) he took at Tzec Maun's southern station (D25) in Pingelly, Western Australia. He also participated in the recovery of periodic comet 246P/NEAT at the Kislovodsk Mountain Astronomical Station of Pulkovo Observatory (D20) in November 2011 (M.P.C. 72435). He has published a large number of secular lightcurves of comets on his Comet Light Curve Refinement Program (LiCuRG) website.

His Apollo and Amor near-Earth object observations, published in MPC's Minor Planet Electronic Circulars during 2009–2011, include 2011 $VW_5$ (MPC), 2011 $AO_{52}$ (MPC), 2010 WB (MPC), 2009 OC (MPC), 2010 $RP_{80}$ (MPC), and 2010 JE88 (MPC).

## List of discovered minor planets

| 228165 Mezentsev | 26 September 2009 | list |
| - | - | - |
| 231649 Korotkiy | 17 November 2009 | list |
| (264156) 2009 $WV_5$ | 17 November 2009 | list |
| (269568) 2009 $WS_{105}$ | 25 November 2009 | list |
| 274981 Petrsu | 12 October 2009 | list |
| (279340) 2009 $YM_6$ | 17 December 2009 | list |
| (296747) 2009 $UB_1$ | 17 October 2009 | list |
| (296818) 2009 $WW_5$ | 17 November 2009 | list |
| (328734) 2009 $UA_1$ | 17 October 2009 | list |
| (331056) 2009 WX | 17 November 2009 | list |
| (369400) 2009 $WS_7$ | 18 November 2009 | list |
| (379283) 2009 $VF_1$ | 9 November 2009 | list |
| (407154) 2009 $UH_2$ | 18 October 2009 | list |
| (407228) 2009 $WY_{10}$ | 20 November 2009 | list |
| (407231) 2009 $WA_{25}$ | 21 November 2009 | list |
| (441872) 2010 $AC_{40}$ | 9 January 2010 | list |
| (457939) 2009 $VG_1$ | 9 November 2009 | list |
| (465786) 2010 $AU_{60}$ | 11 January 2010 | list |
| Co-discovery made with: $^A$ A. Novichonok |||
