(8960) Luscinioides
Asteroid (8960) Luscinioides |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.8967 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0838 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6540 AU - 3.1394 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.3878 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 71.1634 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 148.2564 ° |
Time of passage of the perihelion | 20th December 2017 |
Sidereal period | 4.93 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.49 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
Another name | 2575 PL , 1978 GH 5 , 1995 XT 2 |
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. |
(8960) Luscinioides is an asteroid of the main outer 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 .
(8960) Luscinioides is named after the Rohrschwirl , whose scientific name is Locustella luscinioides . At the time the asteroid was named on February 2, 1999, the Rohrschwirl was on the Dutch Red List of Endangered Species .
Web links
- (8960) Luscinioides in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (8960) Luscinioides 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 (8960) luscinioides according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)