(7855) Tagore

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( 7855 ) Tagore is a main belt asteroid of the middle, which was discovered on 16 October 1977 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten couple and Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld. The discovery happened in the third Trojan survey, in which the 120 - cm Oschin Schmidt telescope of the Palomar Observatory recorded by Tom Gehrels field plates at Leiden University were screened, 17 years after the beginning of the Palomar - Leiden Surveys.

The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, one named after (15 ) Eunomia group, which includes probably five percent of the asteroids of the main belt. After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 7855 ) Tagore from a bright surface with a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it might be so, roughly speaking, to act an S- asteroids.

( 7855 ) Tagore was named on 5 October 1998 from the Bengal poet Rabindranath Thakur, the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded. Tagore is the anglicized spelling of his name Bengali Thakur. In 1976, an impact crater was named in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mercury after him: Mercury crater Thakur.