Leonard Kornoš

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Leonard Kornoš (born 1956) is a Slovak astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids.<ref name="23899 Kornos" />

Career

He is a lecturer at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, and known for his astrometric and photometric observations of asteroids and comets. His research includes the relations between meteoroid streams and their parent bodies.<ref name="23899 Kornos" /> He is credited with the discovery of 37 minor planets, many of which are co-discoveries with astronomers Peter Kolény, Juraj Tóth, Adrián Galád, Dušan Kalmančok, Štefan Gajdoš and Jozef Világi.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />

The asteroid 23899 Kornoš, discovered by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa Station in 1998, was named in his honor.<ref name="23899 Kornos" /> The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 July 2014 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

10207 Comeniana	16 August 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
13370 Júliusbreza	7 November 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
15376 Marták	1 February 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
21802 Svoreň	6 October 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
22469 Poloniny	2 February 1997	Template:Small Template:Ref label
22558 Mladen	22 April 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
24862 Hromec	27 February 1996	Template:Small Template:Ref label
24974 Macúch	21 April 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
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29824 Kalmančok	23 February 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
33129 Ivankrasko	1 February 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
33158 Rúfus	26 February 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
39880 Dobšinský	15 March 1998	Template:Small Template:Ref label
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53910 Jánfischer	6 April 2000	Template:Small Template:Ref label
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59389 Oskarvonmiller	24 March 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
59419 Prešov	9 April 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
67019 Hlohovec	13 December 1999	Template:Small Template:Ref label
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Co-discovery made with: Template:Note label P. Kolény Template:Note label J. Tóth Template:Note label A. Galád Template:Note label D. Kalmančok Template:Note label Š. Gajdoš Template:Note label J. Világi
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