(34399) Hachiojihigashi Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 September 2000 by BATTeRS at Bisei SG Center.
The team of Hachiojihigashi, composed of Nishi, Sakurai and Tamai from the Hachioji-higashi High School, is a prizewinner in the sixteenth Satellite Design Contest 2008 for their space experiment proposal of “A fly--An advance to the space”.Naming citation (20100130/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hachiojihigashi is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hachiojihigashi is 2.41 au from the Sun and 1.76 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 34399 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 RD79 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.38 km (#7,231 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0890 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.23 |
| Orbital period | 4.38 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.68 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.41 – 2.95 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.101 |
| Inclination | 9.66° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.42 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.