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The discoverer, Leonid Elenin, originally estimated that the comet nucleus was 3–4 km in diameter, [7] but more recent estimates place the pre-breakup size of the comet at 2 km. [8] Comet Elenin started disintegrating in August 2011, [9] and as of mid-October 2011 was not visible even using large ground-based telescopes.
479P/Elenin, with provisional designation P/ 2011 NO 1 (Elenin), is a periodic comet with an orbital period estimated at 13.3 years. [ 4 ] The comet was discovered on 7 July 2011 [ 2 ] when the comet was 2.38 AU from the Sun and 1.4 AU from the Earth and had an apparent magnitude of 19.5.
Leonid Elenin works for the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics [1] and lives in Lyubertsy, Moscow region, Russia. [2] 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] As of 2019, Elenin had discovered five comets. [4]
Elenin (Russian: Еле́нин) may refer to: Leonid Elenin, a Russian amateur astronomer C/2010 X1, a long-period comet discovered by Leonid Elenin;
1.1 Comet NEAT 2003 and forward scattering. 2 Move to Comet Elenin? 8 comments. 3 Elelin has disintegrated as predicted scientifically. 6 comments. 4 Nibiru ...
Paris is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. Many people dream of snapping photos of the Eiffel Tower, wandering through the Louvre, and strolling down the Champs Elysées.
Coin showing Caesar's Comet as a star with eight rays, tail upward. Non-periodic comets are seen only once. They are usually on near-parabolic orbits that will not return to the vicinity of the Sun for thousands of years, if ever.
Little is known of what people thought about comets before Aristotle, who observed his eponymous comet, and most of what is known comes secondhand.From cuneiform astronomical tablets, and works by Aristotle, Diodorus Siculus, Seneca, and one attributed to Plutarch but now thought to be Aetius, it is observed that ancient philosophers divided themselves into two main camps.