(8773) Torquilla

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( 8773 ) Torquilla is an asteroid of the outer main belt, which was discovered on 25 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 asteroid belongs to gantrisch family. The group of asteroids is also called Lixiaohua family, depending on which is considered as the larger asteroids: ( 3330 ) gantrisch or ( 3556 ) Lixiaohua. There is an asteroid family with over a long period saw relatively chaotic orbital parameters, as large asteroids in the vicinity of the family ( or their orbits around the sun, which intersect the orbits of the family members ), such as ( 1) Ceres, (2) Pallas, (4) Vesta, (10 ) Hygiea, (52 ) Europe (511 ) Davida and (704 ) Interamnia affect the trajectories of the family members and the family is thus in the sphere of influence of several railway resonances. After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 8773 ) Torquilla 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.

The timeless ( nichtoskulierenden ) orbital elements of ( 8773 ) Torquilla are almost identical to those of the smaller, if we start from the absolute brightness of 16.1 compared with 13.0, asteroid ( 303772 ) 2005 QS173.

( 8773 ) Torquilla is named after the turncoat, a bird from the family of woodpeckers, whose scientific name is Jynx torquilla. At the time of designation of the asteroid on February 2, 1999, the Wryneck was on the Dutch Red List of Threatened Birds.