9999 Wiles
asteroid
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Summary
9999 Wiles is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Cornelis Johannes van Houten[3], Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld[4], Tom Gehrels[5]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Palomar Observatory[6]
- Named after: Andrew Wiles[7]
- Follows: 9998 ISO[8]
- Followed by: 10000 Myriostos[9]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[10]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[11]
- Provisional designation: 1995 EM8[12], 4196 T-2[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 29, 1973[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.07[16], 0.0706919[17], 0.0695524614729384[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 12.9[19], 13.0[20], 13.21[21]
- Orbital inclination: 3.20169 degree[22], 3.19963 degree[23], 3.196364451758546 degree[24]
- Orbital period: 4.78 years[25], 1747.330565040669 day[26]
- Rotation period: 3.482 hour[27]
- Longitude of ascending node: 76.36404 degree[28], 76.29204403269495 degree[29]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.8383143 astronomical unit[30], 2.839124460019337 astronomical unit[31]
- Apoapsis: 3.039 astronomical unit[32], 3.036592554641709 astronomical unit[33]
- Periapsis: 2.6376684 astronomical unit[34], 2.641656365396965 astronomical unit[35]
- Argument of periapsis: 234.84616 degree[36], 232.4796567228303 degree[37]
- Mean anomaly: 155.32801 degree[38], 14.72835498752993 degree[39]
- Diameter: 7.148 km[40]
- Albedo: 0.262[41]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[42]
- Time of periapsis: 2460929.0130421044 Julian day[43]
Why It Matters
9999 Wiles is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]