Leonid Elenin

Leonid Vladimirovich Elenin (Russian: Леонид Владимирович Еленин; born 10 August 1981) is a Russian amateur astronomer working with the ISON-NM observatory (H15) via the International Sceintific Optical Network (ISON) which is the first Russian remote observatory in the West.

Leonid Elenin works for Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics[1] and lives in Lyubertsy, Moscow region, Russia.[2]

Leonid Elenin is best known for discovering the comet C/2010 X1 on 10 December 2010.[2] Elenin then discovered comet P/2011 NO1 on 7 July 2011.[3]

The first asteroid discovered by Leonid Elenin was 2008 XE on 1 December 2008 at Tzec (H10).[4] The first amor asteroid (Near-Earth object) discovered by Elenin was 2010 RN80 on 10 September 2010 at ISON-NM (H15).[5]

Elenin has also discovered the trailing L5 Jupiter trojan 2011 QJ9 on 23 August 2011,[6] the Mars-crossing asteroid 2011 QD23 on 25 August 2011,[7] and the amor asteroid (Near-Earth object) 2011 QY37 on 27 August 2011.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Астрономы обнаружили в спектре "российской" кометы Еленина следы синильной кислоты". 7 August 2011. http://www.newsru.com/world/07aug2011/elenin.html. Retrieved September 8, 2011. 
  2. ^ a b "IAUC 9189: C/2010 X1; P/2010 V1". IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. 2010-12-17. http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/09100/09189.html. Retrieved 2011-03-15. 
  3. ^ "MPEC 2011-O09 : 2011 NO1". IAU Minor Planet Center. 2011-07-18. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K11/K11O09.html. Retrieved 2011-07-19. 
  4. ^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 239664 (2008 XE)". 2010-04-09 last obs. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008XE. Retrieved 2011-10-01. 
  5. ^ Elenin, Leonid (2010-09-13). "The first near-Earth asteroid of ISON-NM observatory". http://spaceobs.org/en/2010/09/13/pervyj-okolozemnoj-asteroid-observatorii-ison-nm/. Retrieved 2011-10-01. 
  6. ^ Elenin, Leonid (2011-08-31). "The first Jovian trojan has been discovered at the ISON-NM observatory". http://spaceobs.org/en/2011/08/31/the-first-jovian-trojan-has-been-discovered-at-the-ison-nm-observatory/. Retrieved 2011-09-05. 
  7. ^ "MPEC 2011-Q39 : 2011 QD23". IAU Minor Planet Center. 2011-08-27. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K11/K11Q39.html. Retrieved 2011-09-05. 
  8. ^ "MPEC 2011-Q51 : 2011 QY37". IAU Minor Planet Center. 2011-08-29. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K11/K11Q51.html. Retrieved 2011-09-05.