Leonid Elenin
# Leonid Elenin

Minor planets discovered: 15 :

| 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 $FR_4$ | 19 March 2009 | list |
| (296563) 2009 $QS_{35}$ | 29 August 2009 | list |
| (301522) 2009 $FX_{23}$ | 22 March 2009 | list |
| 365756 ISON | 4 November 2010 | list |
| (369485) 2010 $UP_6$ | 16 October 2010 | list |
| (372562) 2009 $UN_{20}$ | 25 October 2009 | list |
| 382238 Euphemus | 8 July 2011 | list |
| (400697) 2009 $RV_4$ | 15 September 2009 | list |
| (425381) 2010 $CB_{44}$ | 13 February 2010 | list |
| (429070) 2009 $HR_{67}$ | 27 April 2009 | list |
| (471002) 2009 $SN_{170}$ | 27 September 2009 | list |
| 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 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. As of 2019, Elenin had discovered five comets.

The first asteroid discovered by Leonid Elenin was 2008 XE on 1 December 2008 at Tzec (H10). The first Amor asteroid (near-Earth object) discovered by Elenin was 2010 $RN_{80}$ on 10 September 2010 at ISON-NM (H15).

Elenin has also discovered the trailing L5 Jupiter trojan 2011 $QJ_9$ on 23 August 2011, the Mars-crossing asteroid 2011 $QD_{23}$ on 25 August 2011, and the amor asteroid (Near-Earth object) 2011 $QY_{37}$ on 27 August 2011. The first numbered asteroid discovered by Elenin at ISON-NM is 365756 ISON (2010 $WZ_{71}).$

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

