(5420) Jancis Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 15 May 1982 by Palomar at Palomar.

Master of Wine and doyenne of British wine writers and broadcasters, Jancis Robinson (b. 1950) has a worldwide reputation. Editor of the Oxford Companion to Wine, weekly contributor to the Financial Times and creator of a renowned webpage, she has enormously influenced academic and public understanding of good wine.Naming citation (20060809/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Jancis is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jancis is 2.29 au from the Sun and 2.66 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	5420
Provisional designation	1982 JR1
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	12.3 km (#3,949 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.0731
Rotation period	26.2 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.87
Orbital period	4.39 years
Semi-major axis	2.68 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.05 – 3.31 au
Eccentricity	0.235
Inclination	8.68°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.06 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also discovered on 15 May 1982

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