Grigory Neujmin

Grigory Nikolaevich Neuimin (Russian Григорий Николаевич Неуймин, scientific transliteration Grigorii Nikolaevich Neujmin; born December 22 1885jul / January 3 1886greg, .. † December 17, 1946 ) was a Russian astronomer.

Neuimin discovered 74 asteroids, including (951) Gaspra, which was photographed and measured in 1991 for a flyby of the Galileo spacecraft.

He was also the discoverer or co-discoverer of several periodically recurring comets, including 25D/Neujmin, 28P/Neujmin, 42P/Neujmin, 57P/du Toit Neujmin - Delporte and 58P/Jackson-Neujmin.