(27114) Lukasiewicz Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 19 November 1998 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.
Jan Lukasiewicz (1878-1956) was a Polish mathematician and logician and a professor at Warsaw and later at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. He is best known for inventing a parenthesis-free notation (“reverse Polish notation”) for algebraic expressions that is widely used in computer language compilers.Naming citation (20011230/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lukasiewicz is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lukasiewicz is 3.39 au from the Sun and 2.43 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27114 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 WG2 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.15 km (#8,721 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0810 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.55 |
| Orbital period | 5.74 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.21 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.67 – 3.75 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.168 |
| Inclination | 2.11° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.68 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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