(12936) Glennschneider Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.
Glenn Schneider (b. 1955), American astronomer emeritus at the University of Arizona, is PI for the proposed EXCEDE space telescope and was project scientist for the NICMOS spectrometer on the HST. He has attended 35 total solar eclipses since 1970, including 9sup>m23s of totality from a jet over the South Pacific for the eclipse of 2010.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #5, 9), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Glennschneider is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Glennschneider is 2.90 au from the Sun and 2.58 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 12936 |
| Provisional designation | 2549 P-L |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.14 km (#10,373 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.267 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.87 |
| Orbital period | 4.77 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.83 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.74 – 2.93 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0333 |
| Inclination | 2.15° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.76 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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