In geometry, the sphenocorona is one of the Johnson solids (J₈₆). It is one of the elementary Johnson solids that do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids.

A Johnson solid is one of 92 strictly convex polyhedra that is composed of regular polygon faces but are not uniform polyhedra (that is, they are not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms, or antiprisms). They were named by Norman Johnson, who first listed these polyhedra in 1966.^[1]

Johnson uses the prefix spheno- to refer to a wedge-like complex formed by two adjacent lunes, a lune being a square with equilateral triangles attached on opposite sides. Likewise, the suffix -corona refers to a crownlike complex of 8 equilateral triangles. Joining both complexes together results in the sphenocorona.^[2]

Let ${\displaystyle k\approx 0.85273}$ be the smallest positive root of the quartic polynomial ${\displaystyle 60x^{4}-48x^{3}-100x^{2}+56x+23}$. Then, Cartesian coordinates of a sphenocorona with edge length 2 are given by the union of the orbits of the points

$${\displaystyle \left(0,1,2{\sqrt {1-k^{2}}}\right),\,(2k,1,0),\left(0,1+{\frac {\sqrt {3-4k^{2}}}{\sqrt {1-k^{2}}}},{\frac {1-2k^{2}}{\sqrt {1-k^{2}}}}\right),\,\left(1,0,-{\sqrt {2+4k-4k^{2}}}\right)}$$

under the action of the group generated by reflections about the xz-plane and the yz-plane.^[3]

The sphenocorona has 12 equilateral triangles and 2 squares as its faces.^[4] A convex polyhedron in which all faces are regular polygons is called a Johnson solid, and the sphenocorona is among them, enumerated as the 86th Johnson solid ${\displaystyle J_{86}}$.^[5]

The surface area of a sphenocorona with edge length ${\displaystyle a}$ can be calculated as:^[4]

$${\displaystyle A=\left(2+3{\sqrt {3}}\right)a^{2}\approx 7.19615a^{2},}$$

and its volume as:^[4]

$${\displaystyle \left({\frac {1}{2}}{\sqrt {1+3{\sqrt {\frac {3}{2}}}+{\sqrt {13+3{\sqrt {6}}}}}}\right)a^{3}\approx 1.51535a^{3}.}$$

The sphenocorona is also the vertex figure of the isogonal n-gonal double antiprismoid where n is an odd number greater than one, including the grand antiprism with pairs of trapezoid rather than square faces.

• Augmented sphenocorona