Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 57P/du Toit Neujmin Delporte is the designation of a periodic comet. In 2002 it was discovered to have broken up into at least 19 fragments. The comet has many co-discoverers and a complicated discovery history due to unreliable communications during World War II. Daniel du Toit discovered the comet on July 18, 1941 working at Boyden Station, South Africa. His cabled message about the comet did not reach his employer, Harvard College Observatory, until July 27. During a routine asteroid search, Grigory N. Neujmin found the comet on a photographic plate exposed July 25.