(8640) Ritaschulz

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( 8640 ) Rita Schulz is a main belt asteroid of the middle, which was discover by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station (IAU code 688 ) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County, Arizona on November 6, 1986.

Mean distance from the sun ( semimajor axis), eccentricity and inclination of the orbital plane of the asteroid roughly correspond to the Dora family, a group of asteroids that is named after ( 668 ) Dora. However, Dora asteroids have a rather dark surface and are spectroscopically C and Ch- asteroids. After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey), however, was assumed in ( 8640 ) Rita from a bright surface with a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it might be so, roughly speaking, be a S- asteroids.

( 8640 ) Rita Schulz was named to the proposal from the astronomer Maria A. Barucci on 23 May 2000 after the German astrophysicist Rita Schulz.

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Orbital inclination Longitude of the ascending node Argument of periapsis Orbital speed Intrinsic brightness Edward L. G. Bowell Minor planet designation Astrophysics Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California Minor Planet Center International Astronomical Union Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge (Massachusetts)

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