(34419) Corning Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 September 2000 by A. J. Cecce at Elmira.
Corning is the home of a glassworks that makes professional telescope mirrors, including the disk for the 5-m Hale Telescope at Palomar. The one-tenth-scale engineering model of the Hale telescope resides there, and it was used to discover this minor planet.Naming citation (20020724/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Corning is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Corning is 2.64 au from the Sun and 3.13 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 34419 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 SA7 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 3.05 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.97 |
| Orbital period | 4.09 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.56 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.19 – 2.92 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.143 |
| Inclination | 4.64° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.18 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.