(7927) Jamiegilmour Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 November 1986 by A. Mrkos at Klet.
Jamie Gilmour (b. 1964) is an isotope cosmochemist at the University of Manchester (UK). He develops novel instrumentation to study the origin and evolution of meteorites using xenon isotopic signatures.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-05-29), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jamiegilmour is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jamiegilmour is 2.76 au from the Sun and 3.46 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7927 |
| Provisional designation | 1986 WV1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 11.6 km (#4,287 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0920 |
| Rotation period | 7.19 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.26 |
| Orbital period | 5.55 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.13 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.58 – 3.69 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.176 |
| Inclination | 1.68° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.60 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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