(14995) Archytas Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 November 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.
Archytas (ca. 428-365 B.C.) was a philosopher and mathematician of the Pythagorean school. He is believed to have established the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy), which together with the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, dialectics) was the foundation of classical education.Naming citation (20001111/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Archytas is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Archytas is 3.36 au from the Sun and 4.35 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14995 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 VY1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 16.0 km (#2,880 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0470 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.1 |
| Orbital period | 5.37 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.07 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.77 – 3.37 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0970 |
| Inclination | 3.25° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.77 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.