8591 Excubitor

Summary

8591 Excubitor is an asteroid^[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[2]

Key Facts

• 8591 Excubitor is credited with the discovery of Cornelis Johannes van Houten^[3].
• 8591 Excubitor is credited with the discovery of Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld^[4].
• 8591 Excubitor is credited with the discovery of Tom Gehrels^[5].
• 8591 Excubitor's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[6].
• 8591 Excubitor's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Palomar Observatory^[7].
• Great Grey Shrike is named after 8591 Excubitor^[8].
• 8591 Excubitor's follows is recorded as Q785560^[9].
• 8591 Excubitor's followed by is recorded as Q658707^[10].
• 8591 Excubitor's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[11].
• 8591 Excubitor's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[12].
• 8591 Excubitor's provisional designation is recorded as 1974 CD^[13].
• 8591 Excubitor's provisional designation is recorded as 6543 P-L^[14].
• 8591 Excubitor's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1960-09-24T00:00:00Z^[15].
• 8591 Excubitor's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03y1m5z^[16].
• 8591 Excubitor's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20008591^[17].
• 8591 Excubitor's significant event is recorded as naming^[18].
• 8591 Excubitor's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.19'}^[19].
• 8591 Excubitor's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.1912457'}^[20].
• 8591 Excubitor's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.1937992327100167'}^[21].
• 8591 Excubitor's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+12.9'}^[22].
• 8591 Excubitor's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+13.0'}^[23].
• 8591 Excubitor's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+13.1'}^[24].
• 8591 Excubitor's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+2.08246'}^[25].
• 8591 Excubitor's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+2.083060898673462'}^[26].
• 8591 Excubitor's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q577', 'amount': '+5.61'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Cornelis Johannes van Houten^[3], an astronomer^[28], 1920–2002^[29], of Kingdom of the Netherlands^[30], specialised in astronomy^[31]; Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld^[4], an astronomer^[32], 1921–2015^[33], of Kingdom of the Netherlands^[34], specialised in astronomy^[35]; and Tom Gehrels^[5], an astronomer^[36], 1925–2011^[37], of Kingdom of the Netherlands^[38], awarded the Masursky Award^[39], specialised in astronomy^[40].

Why It Matters

8591 Excubitor has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[2]