|
Discovery
|
|
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels |
| Discovery site | Palomar Observatory |
| Discovery date | September 24, 1960 |
|
Designations
|
|
| MPC designation | 8753 |
| Named after | Black-crowned Night Heron |
| Alternate name(s) | 2636 P-L |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 2.7610463 |
| Peri | 1.8797057 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1899133 |
| Orbital period | 1291.0288984 |
| Mean anomaly | 269.95542 |
| Inclination | 2.84167 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 166.87670 |
| Argument of peri | 80.93914 |
|
Physical characteristics
|
|
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.9 |
8753 Nycticorax (2636 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It was named after Nycticorax nycticorax, the Black-crowned Night Heron.
|
|||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||