7543 Prylis
asteroid
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Summary
7543 Prylis is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6 views/month).[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: Prylis[7]
- Follows: 7542 Johnpond[8]
- Followed by: 7544 Tipografiyanauka[9]
- Minor planet group: Jupiter trojan[10], Greek camp trojan asteroid[11]
- Commons category: 7543 Prylis[12]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[13]
- Provisional designation: 1973 SY[14], 1990 EP[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 19, 1973[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.063[18], 0.0631087[19], 0.06410464762319024[20]
- Lagrangian point: L4-Jupiter-Sun[21]
- Absolute magnitude: 10.6[22], 10.66[23]
- Orbital inclination: 14.06618 degree[24], 14.05352227144373 degree[25]
- Orbital period: 11.83 years[26], 4346.558475106308 day[27]
- Rotation period: 17.8 hour[28]
- Longitude of ascending node: 195.56405 degree[29], 195.570872615216 degree[30]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 5.1931658 astronomical unit[31], 5.212323952786597 astronomical unit[32]
- Apoapsis: 5.521 astronomical unit[33], 5.546458143077895 astronomical unit[34]
- Periapsis: 4.8654317 astronomical unit[35], 4.878189762495298 astronomical unit[36]
- Argument of periapsis: 206.87359 degree[37], 208.9983282165884 degree[38]
- Mean anomaly: 294.73648 degree[39], 132.1750278004867 degree[40]
- Diameter: 42.893 km[41]
- Albedo: 0.055[42]
Why It Matters
7543 Prylis has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]