Leonid Elenin
Leonid Vladimirovich Elenin is a Russian amateur astronomer working with the ISON-NM observatory via the International Scientific Optical Network, 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., Elenin had discovered five comets.
The first asteroid discovered by Leonid Elenin was 2008 XE on 1 December 2008 at Tzec. The first Amor asteroid discovered by Elenin was on 10 September 2010 at ISON-NM.
Elenin has also discovered the trailing L5 Jupiter trojan on 23 August 2011, the Mars-crossing asteroid on 25 August 2011, and the amor asteroid on 27 August 2011. The first numbered asteroid discovered by Elenin at ISON-NM is 365756 ISON.
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
Source:| 216439 Lyubertsy | 15 March 2009 | |
| 1 December 2008 | ||
| 257261 Ovechkin | 31 March 2009 | |
| 269390 Igortkachenko | 27 August 2009 | |
| 19 March 2009 | ||
| 29 August 2009 | ||
| 301522 Chaykin | 22 March 2009 | |
| 5 November 2010 | ||
| 365756 ISON | 4 November 2010 | |
| 16 October 2010 | ||
| 25 October 2009 | ||
| 382238 Euphemus | 8 July 2011 | |
| 15 September 2009 | ||
| 13 February 2010 | ||
| 27 April 2009 | ||
| 27 September 2009 | ||
| 21 December 2011 | ||
| 24 July 2014 | ||
| 7 November 2010 | ||
| 30 January 2011 | ||
| 1 March 2011 | ||
| 5 April 2011 | ||
| 31 October 2011 | ||
| 6 October 2010 | ||
| 11 October 2010 |
| 12 December 2014 | ||
| 11 August 2012 | ||
| 20 September 2012 | ||
| 31 December 2011 | ||
| 6 April 2013 | ||
| 14 January 2012 | ||
| 21 January 2012 | ||
| 21 January 2012 | ||
| 25 February 2012 | ||
| 3 November 2010 | ||
| 2 December 2010 | ||
| 30 January 2011 | ||
| 15 March 2012 | ||
| 23 September 2012 | ||
| 9 October 2013 | ||
| 11 March 2011 | ||
| 24 August 2012 | ||
| 13 August 2010 | ||
| 5 November 2010 | ||
| 4 February 2011 | ||
| 31 October 2011 | ||
| 31 January 2012 | ||
| 31 January 2012 | ||
| 11 August 2012 | ||
| 20 September 2012 |
| 27 November 2013 | ||
| 31 December 2013 | ||
| 21 February 2014 | ||
| 591763 Orishut' | 27 February 2014 | |
| 6 March 2014 | ||
| 4 April 2014 | ||
| 21 February 2014 | ||
| 9 October 2015 | ||
| 594012 Bulavina | 27 December 2011 | |
| 15 July 2012 | ||
| 28 December 2013 | ||
| 9 April 2010 | ||
| 11 October 2010 | ||
| 24 August 2012 | ||
| 28 January 2014 | ||
| 25 February 2012 | ||
| 2 September 2011 | ||
| 21 September 2011 | ||
| 11 October 2010 | ||
| 11 October 2010 | ||
| 26 September 2011 | ||
| 23 August 2011 | ||
| 28 January 2014 | ||
| 16 September 2012 | ||
| 26 September 2011 |
| 27 August 2011 | ||
| 23 September 2011 | ||
| 27 September 2011 | ||
| 2 October 2011 | ||
| 23 September 2011 | ||
| 2 October 2011 | ||
| 2 October 2011 | ||
| 24 September 2011 | ||
| 26 October 2011 | ||
| 29 September 2011 | ||
| 19 September 2012 | ||
| 23 September 2012 | ||
| 3 May 2011 | ||
| 19 October 2012 | ||
| 5 December 2013 | ||
| 18 July 2012 | ||
| 29 August 2011 | ||
| 21 February 2014 | ||
| 25 February 2012 | ||
| 25 August 2014 | ||
| 11 December 2010 | ||
| 29 August 2011 | ||
| 8 May 2011 | ||
| 8 December 2012 | ||
| 28 April 2011 |
| 31 October 2011 | ||
| 17 November 2011 | ||
| 18 December 2011 | ||
| 2 January 2012 | ||
| 29 January 2012 | ||
| 8 December 2010 | ||
| 23 March 2012 | ||
| 27 March 2012 | ||
| 30 January 2011 | ||
| 19 May 2012 | ||
| 11 August 2012 | ||
| 11 August 2012 | ||
| 26 September 2011 | ||
| 24 September 2011 | ||
| 17 November 2011 | ||
| 7 March 2013 | ||
| 24 March 2012 | ||
| 3 October 2013 | ||
| 28 January 2014 | ||
| 29 March 2014 | ||
| 8 December 2010 | ||
| 30 August 2014 | ||
| 8 October 2010 | ||
| 3 November 2010 | ||
| 3 November 2010 |
| 31 July 2011 | ||
| 26 October 2011 | ||
| 26 October 2011 | ||
| 17 November 2011 | ||
| 2 January 2012 | ||
| 20 July 2012 | ||
| 28 December 2013 | ||
| 20 October 2011 | ||
| 18 August 2014 | ||
| 11 October 2010 | ||
| 25 May 2012 | ||
| 8 December 2010 | ||
| 24 September 2011 | ||
| 23 September 2012 | ||
| 1 March 2011 | ||
| 31 July 2013 | ||
| 25 August 2011 | ||
| 29 January 2011 | ||
| 23 August 2011 | ||
| 24 September 2011 | ||
| 15 August 2010 | ||
| 2 December 2010 | ||
| 27 January 2011 | ||
| 29 January 2011 | ||
| 30 January 2011 |