(9680) Molina

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( 9680 ) Molina is an asteroid of the inner main belt, which was discovered on 22 October 1960 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten couple and Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld. The discovery came as part of the Palomar - Leiden Survey, which recorded by Tom Gehrels with the 120 - inch Oschin Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory field plates at Leiden University were screened.

The Italian astronomer Vincenzo Zappalà defined in a 1995 publication ( et al. ) Of seniority ( 9680 ) Molina Flora family, a large group of asteroids that is named after ( 8) flora. Asteroids of this family move in an orbital resonance of 4:9 with the planet Mars around the Sun. The group is also called Ariadne family after the asteroid (43 ) Ariadne.

( 9680 ) Molina is named after the Mexican chemist Mario J. Molina, who won in 1995 with Paul J. Crutzen, and Frank Sherwood Rowland for work on the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere, particularly the formation and decomposition of ozone, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The naming of the asteroid on 11 November 2000. According to Paul J. Crutzen of the inner main belt asteroid ( 9679 ) Crutzen was named on the same day, according to Frank Sherwood Rowland also on 11 November 2000, the asteroid of the outer main belt ( 9681 ) Sherwoodrowland.