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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.
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.
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]
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