(4817) Gliba Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 February 1984 by H. Debehogne at La Silla.
George Gliba (b. 1948) is co-founder of the Chagrin Valley Astronomical Society. He has worked at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center since 1979 on projects such as IUE, GRO and the Hubble Space Telescope. He is a life-long meteor observer, telescope maker and has seen over 100 comets visually.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Gliba is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Gliba is 2.00 au from the Sun and 2.22 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 4817 |
| Provisional designation | 1984 DC1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.79 km (#13,228 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.446 |
| Rotation period | 23.7 hours |
| Spectral type | Sl |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.83 |
| Orbital period | 3.60 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.35 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.86 – 2.84 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.209 |
| Inclination | 2.16° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.869 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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