Fan art required!
Added 2024-09-24 17:17:29 +0000 UTCI have not made a big deal of it yet, but the International Astronomical Union (IAU) have named an asteroid after me! Behold minor planet 314159 is now called "Mattparker".
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=314159
I'm very excited and am filming a video all about it. But we have no visuals of Mattparker. It appears as a single pixel in observations like this:
So I'd love some "artist's impressions" of what Mattparker might look like. 3D renders, 2D sketches, elaborate watercolours - anything would be great! Send it over to matt+mattparker@standupmaths.com before we film on Monday 30 September.
As far as we know, Mattparker is a S class asteroid about 800m in diameter, but even that is speculative. Up until now it has been an insignificant member of the main asteroid belt, so we don't have a lot of observations of it.
I did speak to a light-curve expert who ran the numbers on what little data we have thus far, and this plot (with massive error bars) indicates Mattparker might have a rotation of about 100 hours and be slightly elliptical shaped. But until we get more observations, we really don't know much for sure.
All we do know for sure is that as soon as we have the technology to visit: you're all invited.
Comments
The pi one (pi being half a circle) was the half-ass-teroid The tau (two-pi) one will be the Ass-tau-roid.
PeteyPak
2024-10-26 16:50:58 +0000 UTCWoohoo! We're in! You know, Ally's sketch as a monotile hat was my favorite but there were a lot of close runners up. Brent Bartlett if you're here, well done on describing the surface, that was awesome. Jamie Nemeth that was a fantastic idea. Ronald Lopez are you here? You're design is beautiful. Does anyone know what that chart is a reference to I swear I recognize it but I can't place it.
PeteyPak
2024-10-25 17:44:41 +0000 UTCI wonder if they will name 628319 as stevemould! :D
John Sawyer
2024-10-24 14:58:36 +0000 UTCPlease someone submit something like the moon from The Little Prince but with a parker square on it. :D I would but my artistic skills are why I took up mathematics. :D
John Sawyer
2024-10-24 14:55:01 +0000 UTCSubmitted my art last night, might not have made the cut. Tried with AI and failed ... how can it not make a klein bottle shaped asteroid!!! Got a few more weeks yet before AI can replace my pencil and ink!
DScott
2024-09-30 19:52:21 +0000 UTCPi is provided
Chris Russell
2024-09-27 20:45:31 +0000 UTCCongratulations!
Robert Paulson
2024-09-27 20:37:28 +0000 UTCI emailed some fan art in that I made in 15 minutes that had a parker square on it
Jennifer Smith
2024-09-25 15:21:26 +0000 UTCIt sure is a 'bright star' in a mathematical wasteland.
Jan-Willem Markus
2024-09-25 12:33:11 +0000 UTCWonder whether it has the parker square engraved on it
Chris Adams
2024-09-25 10:26:12 +0000 UTCI feel it should have been 314158, to be a proper "Parker" number
Phil D
2024-09-25 07:39:47 +0000 UTCCongratulations! (And the number is not a coincidence)
Edith Dubiner
2024-09-25 07:33:11 +0000 UTC314159?! Not 628319? That's not an asteroid, that's a hemiroid, and I'm not sure he'll be allowed to show fan art of it.
PeteyPak
2024-09-25 07:09:18 +0000 UTCIt’s so perfect
J. S. B.
2024-09-25 04:14:09 +0000 UTCThey missed an opportunity to name 314158 or 314160 the Parker-Stroid.
The Dean
2024-09-24 23:34:19 +0000 UTCHa! That's pretty good, @Tom G! 👍👍
Phil Stubblefield
2024-09-24 20:50:03 +0000 UTCI'm no artist so no graphics from me, but after reading "single pixel" I imagined a Minecraft-style cuboidal asteroid.
Bartosz Błaszkiewicz
2024-09-24 19:09:14 +0000 UTCJust how did you get 314159 😄 I made an "AI's impression": https://imgur.com/m7v6zW4
Tom G
2024-09-24 18:53:14 +0000 UTCIf I don't see a Matt's head shaped asteroid art I will be very disappointed.
Javier Olazaran
2024-09-24 18:28:56 +0000 UTCSort of the Pluto of asteroids. (Matt’s already suggested the motto for it: “we really don't know much for sure.”)
Brent Bartlett
2024-09-24 18:28:48 +0000 UTCYes, and my bet is 314159 Mattparker will be as "not _really_ an asteroid... not a proper one, at least, but IT GAVE IT A GO AND THAT'S WHAT MATTERS" in the fullness of time.
Tom Gidden
2024-09-24 18:15:41 +0000 UTCGetting asteroid 314159 is so Appropriate 💜
Leonardo Taglialegne
2024-09-24 18:12:38 +0000 UTCI believe this is actually the second Mattparker asteroid, the first having hit the moon: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/images/755
Brent Bartlett
2024-09-24 17:56:08 +0000 UTCCongratulations!!
Fuat Baran
2024-09-24 17:37:57 +0000 UTCParty at Matt's asteroid. Bring your own oxygen.
David F
2024-09-24 17:22:43 +0000 UTCA Minor Parker. So beautiful
Keef
2024-09-24 17:20:53 +0000 UTC
