(8441) Lapponica

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( 8441 ) Lapponica is an asteroid of the inner main belt, which was discovered on 16 October 1977 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten couple and Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld. The discovery happened at the 3rd trojan screening, 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. Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had already given on 10 March 1953 in Indiana at the Goethe Link Observatory.

The rotation of the asteroid was determined among other things by Maurice Clark on observations from 13 to February 17, 2008 at the Observatory of Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. He came to a value of 3.275 h (± 0.001).

( 8441 ) Lapponica was named after the Bar-tailed Godwit on 2 February 1999, whose scientific name (Limosa lapponica ) is. As a winter visitor to the Bar-tailed Godwit was on the Dutch Red List of endangered bird species. There were 1994 counted only 2200 pairs of birds in the Netherlands.