- Source: Leonid Elenin
Leonid Vladimirovich Elenin (Russian: Леони́д Влади́мирович Еле́нин; born 10 August 1981) is a Russian amateur astronomer working with the ISON-NM observatory (H15) via the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON), which is the first Russian remote observatory in the West.
Leonid Elenin works for the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics and lives in Lyubertsy, Moscow region, Russia.
Leonid Elenin is best known for discovering the comet C/2010 X1 on 10 December 2010. Elenin then discovered comet P/2011 NO1 on 7 July 2011. As of 2019, Elenin had discovered five comets.
The first asteroid discovered by Leonid Elenin was 2008 XE on 1 December 2008 at Tzec (H10). The first Amor asteroid (near-Earth object) discovered by Elenin was 2010 RN80 on 10 September 2010 at ISON-NM (H15).
Elenin has also discovered the trailing L5 Jupiter trojan 2011 QJ9 on 23 August 2011, the Mars-crossing asteroid 2011 QD23 on 25 August 2011, and the amor asteroid (Near-Earth object) 2011 QY37 on 27 August 2011. The first numbered asteroid discovered by Elenin at ISON-NM is 365756 ISON (2010 WZ71).
On 29 January 2013, the Minor Planet Center awarded Leonid Elenin a 2012 Edgar Wilson Award for the discovery of comets by amateurs.
List of discovered minor planets
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daftar penemu planet minor
- 3122 Florence
- Meteor Chelyabinsk
- Leonid Elenin
- 479P/Elenin
- C/2010 X1 (Elenin)
- Elenin
- Nibiru cataclysm
- Igor Tkachenko
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Konstantin Chaykin
- C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
- Paulo R. Holvorcem
