(23899) Kornos Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 September 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Leonard Kornoš (b. 1956) is a lecturer at the Comenius University in Bratislava. His research includes the relations between meteoroid streams and their parent bodies, in addition to being active in astrometric and photometric measurements of asteroids and comets.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-07-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kornos is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kornos is 2.44 au from the Sun and 2.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23899 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 SE61 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.67 km (#9,459 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.381 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.15 |
| Orbital period | 4.43 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.70 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.30 – 3.09 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.146 |
| Inclination | 13.2° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.32 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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