(8588) Avosetta

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Asteroid
(8588) Avosetta
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  March 23, 2018 ( JD 2,458,200.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.2128  AU
eccentricity 0.0654
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0680 AU - 2.3576 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 7.5381 °
Length of the ascending node 196.9030 °
Argument of the periapsis 237.5442 °
Time of passage of the perihelion April 8, 2017
Sidereal period 3.29 a
Mean orbital velocity 20.02 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.7 mag
history
Explorer Cornelis Johannes van Houten ,
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld ,
Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery September 24, 1960
Another name 4025 PL , 1993 TU 18
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(8588) Avosetta is an asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery came about as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey , during which Tom Gehrels examined field plates recorded at the University of Leiden with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory .

(8588) Avosetta is after the avocet named, whose scientific name Recurvirostra avosetta is. At the time the asteroid was named on February 2, 1999, the avocet was on the Dutch Red List of Endangered Species . The first letters of the asteroids (8585) to (8600) form the phrase Per aspera ad astra .

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