(8765) Limosa
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Asteroid (8765) Limosa |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.7273 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0350 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6317 AU - 2.8229 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 8.1994 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 10.1267 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 70.3083 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.50 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.04 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | 29th September 1973 |
| Another name | 1274 T-2 , 1978 WE 8 |
| 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. | |
(8765) Limosa is an asteroid of the central main belt that was discovered on September 29, 1973 by the Dutch astronomer couple Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld . The discovery was made during the 2nd Trojan survey, during which Tom Gehrels surveyed field plates recorded with the 120 cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar observatory at the University of Leiden , 13 years after the start of the Palomar-Leiden- Surveys .
The Italian astronomer Vincenzo Zappalà defines in a publication from 1995 (et al.) That the asteroid belongs to the Lydia family, a group of asteroids named after (110) Lydia . According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic investigation by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (8765) Limosa assumed a dark surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be around trade a C asteroid .
(8765) Limosa is named after the godwit , a snipe bird whose scientific name is Limosa limosa . At the time the asteroid was named on February 2, 1999, the godwit was on the Dutch and European Red List of Endangered Species .
Web links
- (8765) Limosa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (8765) Limosa 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
- ↑ Database with the assignment of 12,487 asteroids to asteroid groups (English)
- ^ 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 653 (English)