314159 Mattparker

Summary

314159 Mattparker is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 314159 Mattparker is credited with the discovery of Mount Lemmon Survey^[3].
• 314159 Mattparker's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 314159 Mattparker's instance of is recorded as minor planet^[5].
• 314159 Mattparker's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Mount Lemmon^[6].
• Matt Parker is named after 314159 Mattparker^[7].
• pi is named after 314159 Mattparker^[8].
• 314159 Mattparker's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 314159 Mattparker's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[10].
• 314159 Mattparker's provisional designation is recorded as 2005 FW₁^[11].
• 314159 Mattparker's provisional designation is recorded as 2005 FW1^[12].
• 314159 Mattparker's provisional designation is recorded as 2001 DC2^[13].
• 314159 Mattparker's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2005-03-16T00:00:00Z^[14].
• 314159 Mattparker's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20314159^[15].
• 314159 Mattparker's significant event is recorded as naming^[16].
• 314159 Mattparker's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1963136631717655'}^[17].
• 314159 Mattparker's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+17.86'}^[18].
• 314159 Mattparker's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+2.340854198427447'}^[19].
• 314159 Mattparker's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1356.849904744974'}^[20].
• 314159 Mattparker's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+128.6581105370936'}^[21].
• 314159 Mattparker's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.398587619744931'}^[22].
• 314159 Mattparker's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.869463141815504'}^[23].
• 314159 Mattparker's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.927712097674358'}^[24].
• 314159 Mattparker's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+90.28125966190011'}^[25].
• 314159 Mattparker's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+132.5359584319554'}^[26].
• 314159 Mattparker's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 314159^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include asteroid^[4] and minor planet^[5].

History and Context

Things named after include Matt Parker^[7], a mathematician^[28], b. 1980^[29], of Australia^[30], awarded the Christopher Zeeman Medal^[31], specialised in comic^[32] and pi^[8], a transcendental number^[33].

Why It Matters

314159 Mattparker ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]