(8959) Oenanthe

Asteroid (8959) Oenanthe
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: 4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type	Inner main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.3046 AU
eccentricity	0.2057
Perihelion - aphelion	1.8307 AU - 2.7786 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	2.1309 °
Length of the ascending node	57.3518 °
Argument of the periapsis	227.1502 °
Sidereal period	3.50 a
Mean orbital velocity	19.62 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	15.3 mag
history
Explorer	Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Tom Gehrels
Date of discovery	September 24, 1960
Another name	2550 PL , 1978 WT ₁₁
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(8959) Oenanthe is an asteroid of the inner main 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 .

According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (8959) Oenanthe assumed a light surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be around trade an S asteroid .

(8959) Oenanthe is named after the wheatear , whose scientific name is Oenanthe oenanthe . At the time the asteroid was named on February 2, 1999, the wheatear was on the Dutch Red List of Endangered Species .

Web links

(8959) Oenanthe in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
(8959) Oenanthe 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 (8959) Oenanthe according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (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)

[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)