(17240) Gletorrence Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 9 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Glenda Torrence for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. Torrence is a teacher at the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (20020227/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Gletorrence is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Gletorrence is 2.36 au from the Sun and 1.83 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 17240 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 EK95 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.93 km (#12,926 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.181 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.36 |
| Orbital period | 3.45 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.09 – 2.48 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0852 |
| Inclination | 2.30° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.09 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Glenda
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