(416400) 2003 UZ117
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Summary
(416400) 2003 UZ117 is an asteroid[1]. (416400) 2003 UZ117 ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (69 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Spacewatch[3]
- Instance of: trans-Neptunian object[4]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Kitt Peak National Observatory[5]
- Minor planet group: trans-Neptunian object[6]
- Commons category: (416400) 2003 UZ117[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
- Provisional designation: 2003 UZ117[9]
- Time of discovery or invention: October 24, 2003[10]
- Asteroid family: Haumea family[11]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.136[12], 0.1396232919919692[13]
- Absolute magnitude: 5.1[14], 5.23[15]
- Orbital inclination: 27.44 degree[16], 27.40027459318034 degree[17]
- Orbital period: 108756.1577461936 day[18]
- Rotation period: 10.61 hour[19]
- Longitude of ascending node: 204.66 degree[20], 204.5766404846364 degree[21]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 44.5899466495602 astronomical unit[22]
- Apoapsis: 50.81574179051808 astronomical unit[23]
- Periapsis: 38.36415150860233 astronomical unit[24]
- Argument of periapsis: 246.9 degree[25], 246.2615619912409 degree[26]
- Mean anomaly: 337.3 degree[27], 351.2517229793925 degree[28]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[29]
- Time of periapsis: 2463643.3583212793 Julian day[30]
Why It Matters
(416400) 2003 UZ117 has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31]