Comet Elenin is making its closest pass to our earth during the next several months. It supposedly will not be visible to the naked eye becuase of its faintness. The Russian who discovered it, Leonid Elenin, believes its size is  3–4 km in diameter. The comet follows a 9,900 years hyperbolic orbit around our sun, so assuming it survives this go around it will be a long time before it returns.

In mid August the comet was hit by coronal mass ejection from the sun, which is  a massive burst of solar wind. This may be causing the comet to disintegrate.

The best time to see if the comet is around mid September when Comet Elenin will pass between the Earth and Sun. Most viewing will only be from the Southern hemisphere.

This youtube video from New Zealand posted on August 27th appears to the show the comet.

On 10 December 2010, Leonid Elenin, a little known amateur Russian astronomer from Lubertsy City, in Russia, discovered Comet C/2010 X1, a comet now universally known as Elenin. The researcher from the Russian Academy of Sciences spotted the C/2010 X1 while reviewing four-minute footage from the ISON-NB Observatory (International Scientific Optical Network’s Robotic Observatory) in New Mexico.