(20370) Gkotsinas Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 May 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Anastasios Gkotsinas (b. 1987) is a Greek researcher. He is working on the thermal processing of comet populations due to their orbital evolution during the phase of giant-planet instability.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Gkotsinas is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Gkotsinas is 2.79 au from the Sun and 2.83 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20370 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 KR29 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.66 km (#6,934 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.251 |
| Rotation period | 54.1 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.92 |
| Orbital period | 4.59 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.76 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.55 – 2.97 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0769 |
| Inclination | 6.49° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.57 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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