Claim: 84882 Table Mountain, a bright background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, was named after Table Mountain Obeservatory and was discovered by J. W. Young on February 1, 2003.
Evidence: 84882 Table Mountain, provisional designation 2003 CN16, is a bright background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) in diameter. This minor planet was named for the Table Mountain Observatory, the discoverer's workplace, currently a NASA facility operated by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which began operation as a Smithsonian Institution site in 1924 to study the solar constant. J. W. Young 1 February 2003