(8585) Purpurea

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( 8585 ) Purpurea is an asteroid of the outer main belt, which was discovered on 24 September 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.

After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 8585 ) Purpurea by a dark surface at a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it might be so, roughly speaking, to act a C- asteroids.

( 8585 ) Purpurea is named after the purple heron, whose scientific name Ardea purpurea is. At the time of designation of the asteroid on February 2, 1999, the Purple Heron was on the Dutch Red List of Threatened Species. The first letter of the asteroid ( 8585 ) to ( 8600 ) form the phrase Per aspera ad astra.

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