5370 Taranis, provisional designation 1986 RA, is an asteroid and suspected dormant comet on an eccentric orbit, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.
Taranis was discovered on 2 September 1986, by French astronomer Alain Maury at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States.
The unstable resonance with Jupiter is expected to last roughly 7.3 million years.
[1] This minor planet was named after the Gaulish god of thunder Taranis from Celtic mythology.
The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 (M.P.C.