- 8753 Nycticorax
Infobox Planet
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name = Nycticorax
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discovery = yes
discovery_ref =
discoverer = C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld
discovery_site =
discovered =24 September ,1960
designations = yes
mp_name = 8753
alt_names = 2636 P-L
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orbit_ref =
epoch =May 14 ,2008
aphelion = 2.7610463
perihelion = 1.8797057
semimajor =
eccentricity = 0.1899133
period = 1291.0288984
avg_speed =
inclination = 2.84167
asc_node = 166.87670
mean_anomaly = 269.95542
arg_peri = 80.93914
satellites =
physical_characteristics = yes
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abs_magnitude = 14.98753 Nycticorax (2636 P-L) is a
Main-belt Asteroid discovered on24 September ,1960 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld. It was named afterNycticorax nycticorax , the Black-crowned Night Heron.External links
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8753+Nycticorax JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 8753 Nycticorax]
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