(7124) Glinos Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 July 1990 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.
Canadian amateur astronomer Tom Glinos (b. 1960) has contributed observations in several fields for almost a quarter of a century. He recently donated a high-quality equatorial telescope mount to the London Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, a group with which he has been long active.Naming citation (20010309/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Glinos is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Glinos is 3.24 au from the Sun and 3.71 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7124 |
| Provisional designation | 1990 OJ4 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 14.6 km (#3,225 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.161 |
| Rotation period | 29.3 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 11.5 |
| Orbital period | 5.58 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.14 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.03 – 3.26 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0371 |
| Inclination | 17.9° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.06 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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