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.
216439 Lyubertsy | 15 March 2009 | list |
(239664) 2008 XE | 1 December 2008 | list |
257261 Ovechkin | 31 March 2009 | list |
269390 Igortkachenko | 27 August 2009 | list |
(296345) 2009 FR4 | 19 March 2009 | list |
(296563) 2009 QS35 | 29 August 2009 | list |
(301522) 2009 FX23 | 22 March 2009 | list |
365756 ISON | 4 November 2010 | list |
(369485) 2010 UP6 | 16 October 2010 | list |
(372562) 2009 UN20 | 25 October 2009 | list |
382238 Euphemus | 8 July 2011 | list |
(400697) 2009 RV4 | 15 September 2009 | list |
(425381) 2010 CB44 | 13 February 2010 | list |
(429070) 2009 HR67 | 27 April 2009 | list |
(471002) 2009 SN170 | 27 September 2009 | list |
credited by the MPC, as per 2016 | ||
Leonid Elenin works for the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics[2] and lives in Lyubertsy, Moscow region, Russia.[3]
Leonid Elenin is best known for discovering the comet C/2010 X1 on 10 December 2010.[3] Elenin then discovered comet P/2011 NO1 on 7 July 2011.[4] As of 2019[update], Elenin had discovered five comets.[5]
The first asteroid discovered by Leonid Elenin was 2008 XE on 1 December 2008 at Tzec (H10).[6] The first Amor asteroid (near-Earth object) discovered by Elenin was 2010 RN80 on 10 September 2010 at ISON-NM (H15).[7]
Elenin has also discovered the trailing L5 Jupiter trojan 2011 QJ9 on 23 August 2011,[8] the Mars-crossing asteroid 2011 QD23 on 25 August 2011,[9] and the amor asteroid (Near-Earth object) 2011 QY37 on 27 August 2011.[10] The first numbered asteroid discovered by Elenin at ISON-NM is 365756 ISON (2010 WZ71).[11]
On 29 January 2013, the Minor Planet Center awarded Leonid Elenin a 2012 Edgar Wilson Award for the discovery of comets by amateurs.[12]