(8765) Limosa

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( 8765 ) Limosa is a main belt asteroid of the middle, which was discovered on 29 September 1973 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten couple and Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld. The discovery happened during the 2nd Trojan survey, in which the 120 - cm Oschin Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory recorded by Tom Gehrels field plates at Leiden University were screened, 13 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 for Lydia family, one named after (110 ) Lydia group of asteroids. After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 8765 ) Limosa of a dark surface with a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it might be so, roughly speaking, to act a C- asteroids.

( 8765 ) Limosa is named after the black-tailed godwit, a Godwit, Limosa limosa whose scientific name is. At the time of designation of the asteroid on February 2, 1999, the Black-tailed Godwit was on the Dutch and European Red List of Threatened Species.