8992 Magnanimity

Magnanimity orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.9 AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,350 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.21 and an inclination of 8° with respect to the ecliptic. In September 1954, it was first identified as {{mp|1954 RE}} at Goethe Link Observatory, extending the body's observation arc by 26 years prior to its official discovery observation at Nanjing.

The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 6.2 kilometers. A rotational lightcurve of Magnanimity was obtained from photometric observations by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec at Ondřejov Observatory in September 2013. It gave a well-defined and longer-than-average rotation period of {{val|20.719}} hours with a brightness variation of 0.25 magnitude ({{small|U=3}}).{{efn|name=lcdb-Pravec-2013}}

This minor planet was named Magnanimity in response to the September 11 attacks. As a commemorative gesture, the IAU's Committee for the Nomenclature of Small Bodies chose three objects discovered from observatories on different continents and christened them with names representing some of the most basic and universal human values. The other two selections were 8990 Compassion (discovered from Europe) and 8991 Solidarity (discovered from South America). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 October 2001 ({{small|M.P.C. 43684}}).

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{{efn|name=lcdb-Pravec-2013|1=Pravec (2013): [http://www.asu.cas.cz/~asteroid/08992.png lightcurve plot] of (8992) Magnanimity with a rotation period {{val|20.719|0.001}} hours with a brightness amplitude of {{val|0.25}} mag. Summary figures at [http://www.minorplanet.info/PHP/generateOneAsteroidInfo.php?AstInfo=8992%7CMagnanimity Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL)] and [http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/neo.htm Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L. (2013)]}}

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{{cite web

|type = 2016-07-27 last obs.

|title = JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 8992 Magnanimity (1980 TE7)

|url = https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008992

|publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory

|access-date = 22 June 2017}}

{{cite book

|title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (8992) Magnanimity

|last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.

|publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg

|page = 674

|date = 2007

|isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3

|doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_7319 |chapter = (8992) Magnanimity }}

{{cite web

|title = 8992 Magnanimity (1980 TE7)

|work = Minor Planet Center

|url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=8992

|access-date = 10 July 2016}}

{{cite web

|title = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive

|work = Minor Planet Center

|url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html

|access-date = 10 July 2016}}

{{cite web

|title = LCDB Data for (8992) Magnanimity

|publisher = Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)

|url = http://www.minorplanet.info/PHP/generateOneAsteroidInfo.php?AstInfo=8992%7CMagnanimity

|access-date = 10 July 2016}}

{{cite journal

|display-authors = 6

|first1 = Peter |last1 = Veres

|first2 = Robert |last2 = Jedicke

|first3 = Alan |last3 = Fitzsimmons

|first4 = Larry |last4 = Denneau

|first5 = Mikael |last5 = Granvik

|first6 = Bryce |last6 = Bolin

|first7 = Serge |last7 = Chastel

|first8 = Richard J. |last8 = Wainscoat

|first9 = William S. |last9 = Burgett

|first10 = Kenneth C. |last10 = Chambers

|first11 = Heather |last11 = Flewelling

|first12 = Nick |last12 = Kaiser

|first13 = Eugen A. |last13 = Magnier

|first14 = Jeff S. |last14 = Morgan

|first15 = Paul A. |last15 = Price

|first16 = John L. |last16 = Tonry

|first17 = Christopher |last17 = Waters

|date = November 2015

|title = Absolute magnitudes and slope parameters for 250,000 asteroids observed by Pan-STARRS PS1 - Preliminary results

|url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2015Icar..261...34V

|journal = Icarus

|volume = 261

|pages = 34–47

|bibcode = 2015Icar..261...34V

|doi = 10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.007

|arxiv = 1506.00762

|access-date= 10 July 2016}}

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• {{AstDys|8992}}
• {{JPL small body}}

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