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^[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] As of 2019^[update], Elenin had discovered five comets.^[4]

The first asteroid discovered by Leonid Elenin was 2008 XE on 1 December 2008 at Tzec (H10).^[5] The first Amor asteroid (near-Earth object) discovered by Elenin was 2010 RN₈₀ on 10 September 2010 at ISON-NM (H15).^[6]

Elenin has also discovered the trailing L5 Jupiter trojan 2011 QJ₉ on 23 August 2011,^[7] the Mars-crossing asteroid 2011 QD₂₃ on 25 August 2011,^[8] and the amor asteroid (Near-Earth object) 2011 QY₃₇ on 27 August 2011.^[9] The first numbered asteroid discovered by Elenin at ISON-NM is 365756 ISON (2010 WZ₇₁).^[10]

On 29 January 2013, the Minor Planet Center awarded Leonid Elenin a 2012 Edgar Wilson Award for the discovery of comets by amateurs.^[11]