Tinker is asteroid #22830 and is also known as 1999 RW₅₂. Tinker measures 7.8 km in diameter. Tinker’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.07 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.20, a period of revolution of 1’962 days, and an inclination of 1.7 degrees. Tinker was discovered during the course of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project at the Lincoln Laboratory’s Experimental Test Site (ETS) on the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) near Socorro, New Mexico, USA.

Tinker is named after Joel Jack Tinker, who was born in 1994 and was a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for his engineering project. He back then attended the Covenant Christian Academy, Huntsville, Alabama, USA. Joel Tinker is a surprisingly frequent name. About Joel Jack Tinker is nothing else known publicly.

So an astrological interpretation of the asteroid can only be derived from the name Tinker. Asteroid #22830 caught my attention because its name reminded me at Disney’s Tinker Bell. 1999 RW₅₂ presides over tinkerers and tinkering.