(8436) Leucopsis

Asteroid (8436) Leucopsis
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: 4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type	Main outer belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	3.0994 AU
eccentricity	0.1241
Perihelion - aphelion	2.7148 AU - 3.4840 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	4.2004 °
Length of the ascending node	129.7594 °
Argument of the periapsis	304.4748 °
Sidereal period	5.46 a
Mean orbital velocity	16.92 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.8 mag
history
Explorer	Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery	March 25, 1971
Another name	2259 T-1 , 1985 VH ₄ , 1990 RV ₁₃ , 1990 SJ ₈
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(8436) Leucopsis is an asteroid of the main outer belt that was discovered on March 25, 1971 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery took place during the 1st Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded by the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , eleven years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .

According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic investigation by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel in (8436) Leucopsis assumed a dark surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be around trade a C asteroid .

(8436) Leucopsis is named after the barnacle goose , whose scientific name is Branta leucopsis . At the time the asteroid was named on February 2, 1999, the barnacle goose was a winter guest on the Dutch Blue List of Important Birds, which was published in 1994 together with the Dutch Red List of Endangered Birds.

Web links

(8436) Leucopsis in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
(8436) leucopsis in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)

Individual evidence

^ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)
↑ subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)
^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Springer, Heidelberg 2012, 6th edition, page 637f (English)

[1] Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)

[2] subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)

[3] Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Springer, Heidelberg 2012, 6th edition, page 637f (English)