9999 Wiles
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| Discovered by |
C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld, & T. Gehrels | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | September 29, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9999 Wiles | ||||||||||||
Named after | Andrew Wiles | ||||||||||||
| 4196 T-2, 1995 EM8 | |||||||||||||
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| Epoch 27 October 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 3.0278989 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.6519593 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.8399291 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.0661882 | ||||||||||||
| 4.78596411 yr (1748.0733925 d) | |||||||||||||
| 94.70459° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 3.20169° | ||||||||||||
| 76.42666° | |||||||||||||
| 232.87093° | |||||||||||||
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| C-type asteroid[1] | |||||||||||||
| 13.1 | |||||||||||||
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9999 Wiles is a C-type asteroid from the asteroid belt. It orbits the Sun every 4.8 years.
It was discovered by C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld and T. Gehrels on September 29, 1973. Given the provisional designation 4196 T-2, it was renamed 9999 Wiles in honour of Andrew J. Wiles, who proved Fermat's last theorem.[2]
References
- ↑ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia & Richard P. Binzel. "Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog".
- ↑ MPC 34356 Minor Planet Center
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