![]() It has an 18-inch mirror and it's fitted with an FLI ML09000-65 astronomical imaging camera in the primary focus. The observatory consists of a single telescope in a shed on the grounds of the New Mexico Skies astronomy hosting company. The observatory's name is "ISON-NM", as it is a part of the International Scientific Optical Network - an international network of observers that performs collaborative tasks such as looking for space debris, NEOs (near-Earth objects) and gamma-ray bursts. The comet was discovered on 10 December 2010 by Leonid Elenin (Russian: Леонид Еленин), a Russian amateur astronomer, using a remotely operated telescope located near Mayhill, New Mexico.Īs the circumstances are slightly unusual and part of the conspiracy claims concern Leonid Elenin's observatory itself, some boooring background details are necessary. (The designation means that this is the first (X 1) not-short-periodic comet ( C) discovered in the first half of December 2010 ( 2010 X1) and the last name of the discoverer is Elenin. Due to the latter, it can be used as a case study in how doomsday conspiracy theories originate, develop and spread. ![]() Oh, and the fact that an assortment of cranks, conspiracy theorists and/or End Times/ Rapture believers latched onto it for a variety of reasons. It's notable mostly for being the first comet discovered by a Russian in the last 20 years. Comet Elenin to the media and everyone who doesn't know how to read the IAU's designations, was a comet discovered in the end of 2010 that reached its first known perihelion (closest point to the Sun in its orbit) in September 2011, disintegrating shortly afterwards. Information in this article may be false or unreliable due to recent (or not so recent) developments including new studies and new perspectives.Ĭomet C/2010 X1 (Elenin), a.k.a.
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