Comet Elenin
Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is an Oort cloud comet discovered by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010, through Amateur astronomy#Remote-controlled telescopes, remote control of the International Scientific Optical Network's robotic observatory near Mayhill, New Mexico, Mayhill in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The discovery was made using the automated asteroids discovery program CoLiTec. At the time of discovery, the comet had an apparent magnitude of 19.5, making it about 150,000 times fainter than can be seen with the naked eye. The discoverer, Leonid Elenin, originally estimated that the comet nucleus was 3–4 km in diameter, but more recent estimates place the pre-breakup size of the comet at 2 km. Comet Elenin started disintegrating in August 2011, and as of mid-October 2011 was not visible even using large ground-based telescopes. Brightness In April 2011, the comet was around magnitude 15 (roughly the brightness of Pluto), with a Coma (come ...
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Elenin (russian: Еле́нин, link=no) may refer to: *Leonid Elenin, a Russian amateur astronomer **C/2010 X1, a long-period comet discovered by Leonid Elenin *Elenin Vrah, a mountain in Rila Municipality of Bulgaria *Platon Elenin, an alias of Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky See also

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