| 15 March 2009 | ||
| 1 December 2008 | ||
| 31 March 2009 | ||
| 27 August 2009 | ||
| 19 March 2009 | ||
| 29 August 2009 | ||
| 22 March 2009 | ||
| 4 November 2010 | ||
| 16 October 2010 | ||
| 25 October 2009 | ||
| 8 July 2011 | ||
| 15 September 2009 | ||
| 13 February 2010 | ||
| 27 April 2009 | ||
| 27 September 2009 | ||
| credited by the MPC, as per 2016 | ||
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.
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], 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 on 10 September 2010 at ISON-NM (H15).[6]
Elenin has also discovered the trailing L5 Jupiter trojan on 23 August 2011,[7] the Mars-crossing asteroid on 25 August 2011,[8] and the amor asteroid (Near-Earth object) on 27 August 2011.[9] The first numbered asteroid discovered by Elenin at ISON-NM is 365756 ISON .[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]