(8592) Rubetra

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( 8592 ) rubetra is an asteroid of the inner main belt, which was discovered on 25 March 1971 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten couple and Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld. The discovery took place within the first Trojan survey, in which the 120 - cm Oschin Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory recorded by Tom Gehrels field plates at Leiden University were screened, eleven years after the beginning of the Palomar - Leiden Surveys.

The Italian astronomer Vincenzo Zappalà defined in a 1995 publication ( et al. ) Affiliation of the asteroid to the 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.

( 8592 ) rubetra is named after the Whinchat, Saxicola rubetra whose scientific name is. At the time of designation of the asteroid on February 2, 1999, the Whinchat 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.