(8588) Avosetta
Asteroid (8588) Avosetta |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
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 |
Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. |
(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 .
Web links
- (8588) Avosetta in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (8588) Avosetta in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (8588) Avosetta that according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)