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Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is an Oort cloud comet discovered by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010, through remote control of the International Scientific Optical Network's robotic observatory near Mayhill in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
Comet P/2011 NO1 (Elenin) is an object whose orbit features a relatively short period, low inclination, and is controlled by Jupiter's gravitational effects.
6 mar 2013 · Elenin (C/2010 X1) was a comet that brushed by Earth safely in October 2011, despite predictions by some that its arrival would trigger tsunamis and earthquakes. More properly speaking, it was...
25 paź 2011 · "Comet Elenin has rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-comet." NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing relatively close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes.
24 gru 2010 · Comet Elenin (C/2010 X1) made its debut on December 10th when Leonid Elenin, an observer in Lyubertsy, Russia, remotely acquired four 4-minute-long images using an 18-inch (45-cm) telescope at the ISON-NM observatory near Mayhill, New Mexico.
26 paź 2011 · “Elenin did as new comets passing close by the Sun do about 2 percent of the time: It broke apart,” said Don Yeomans from NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office in Pasadena, California....
4 maj 2011 · Comet Elenin should be at its brightest shortly before the time of its closest approach to Earth on Oct. 16 of this year. At its closest point, it will be 35 million kilometers (22 million miles) from us. Can this icy interloper influence us from where it is, or where it will be in the future?
