Just for your information Matt, the object with an orbital period of 3.14 years has not been named yet. You might want to propose someone's name for it.
According to OEIS A060421, the next time this will happen is at 38 digits, and 16208 digits after that. I feel like he hasn't realised how cool this number is
@@birdy_ not only is it a twin prime, it is made up of three 2 digit twin primes! 31 (29), 41 (43) and 59 (61) are all primes. 314159 is also an emorp, meaning its reverse (951413) is also prime! something not as interesting is that 14159, 4159 and 59 are prime (but sadly 159 isnt so there isnt a pattern)
The year: 2718 Prospector: "scans are in from 314159 Mattparker." Mission control: "What are the results?" Prospector: "Mostly just rock. We didn't find anything. No water ice, metals are too scarce to bother with a mining operation." Mission control: "Well, we gave it a go. That's the important part."
I predict that before that year some nerd will have launched a kickstarter project to send a robot to Mattparker and etch a Parker Square into its surface.
Prospector: "I've detected an issue. The asteroid rotated almost synchronously to my ship and I've scanned only one side. Should I probe Mattparker's backside?" Mission Control: Affirmative. Try going as deep as you can.
I'm glad that at 9:50 you clarified that the picture is not to scale, and that there isn't a gigantic orbiting Matt Parker head constantly in the skies
It's not to scale bc the sun is so large that it would appear like a straight line if we were to see the earth had a green and blue surface, not necessarily bc of the astroids 😂
@@sahasananth987 I was searching the commend to see if someone suggested a Spaceball related name for it, I think Melbrooks would be fitting. If he already has something astronomical named after him then Spaceball as an asteroid is kind of a space ball.
@@gavinjared1135 there is also a math operator !! Called double factorial for ex 8!! = 8*6*4*2 and 11!! = 9*7*5*3 basically it depends on parity and we can name it after the guy who created the operator
13:36 "probably the last time someone says Matt Parker in all of history to refer to me, will be centuries from now in a shareholder report for some asteroid mining company. it will say, 'Matt Parker has nothing of worth and requires no further investigational study'" LMAO
Worldwide there are students who struggle with mathematics. Matt has brought joy of exploration and discovery and humour into mathematics, what a wonderful contribution! This is well deserved! Congratulations!
Some quick googling finds someone else's analysis 2014 of US death records for the previous 70 years, where approaching 90 million people have over 30 million unique names listed. The same analyst also looked at an October 2010 list of 170 million Facebook names, which had 100 million different names. As of May 2022, there were roughly 1.1 million asteroids either numbered or awaiting numbering. So in terms of asteroids that have been discovered and are in the pipeline to be named, there are many more names available than asteroids in the queue. On the other hand, since anything smaller than Ceres down to rocks about a meter in diameter which orbits within the inner solar system qualifies as an asteroid (and some definitions include some objects in the outer solar system, like the trojans), it seems likely that there are more asteroids than recognised names. On the gripping hand, even just allowing two English words from a basic vocabulary of 20,000 (estimates put a typical vocabulary somewhere in the 15k-50k range) that would be 400 million possible names; taking the "correct horse battery staple" approach using four common words from a 2,000 word vocabulary gives 16 trillion possible names (enough to name every star in thirty galaxies the size of the Milky Way with some left over); 160 quadrillion if you start from a 20k vocabulary. With five words from a 30k vocabulary, you could name every individual grain of sand on Earth. If we really wanted to name every single asteroid, we'd run out of space rocks before running out of character strings...
Wikipedia: "On 15 August 2024, the main-belt asteroid 314159 Mattparker[a] was named in his honour. The citation highlights Parker's biennial "Pi Day challenges", stating that they have helped to popularise mathematics.[40][41]"
12:15 - Well, *314159 is both pi-like **_and_** a prime* (did you really not notice that, or just forgot to mention it?). After that, you'd have to wait for asteroid no. 314151926535897932384626433832795028841.
@@zapfanzapfan That asteroid will never exist. If you take the mass of the Solar System (the Sun included), and divide it by that number, you get about 6 micrograms, which would literally be a grain of dust. But if you exclude the Sun and planets, and only take the mass actually left for asteroids, comets etc., you get something of the order of 10^-16 grams. That's not even dust. It's too small to be seen with light waves.
I was SO MAD when i found out Matt Parker took 314159 for himself. That one should have been simply named Pi, and he should take 314158 for himself. It is appropriately close, but not quite there. THE AUDACITY
First off, congratulations Matt, what an incredible honor, and well deserved. However I gotta say it would have been a more fitting tribute, or at least funnier, if they'd gone with, say, asteroid 314157.
Lovely! The same video that qualifies Matt’s ‘not to scale’ cranial graphic also identifies the infinitesimal chance of catastrophy as non-zero and slim. ❤❤❤
If I ever get the chance to attend a Pi day calculation by hand, I will bring a protest board that will say, “MattParker (asteroid 314159) will kill us all.” Granted, I probably won’t be allowed in with the board, as it contains a spoiler for the first few digits of Pi… Congratulations to Matt for this, truly an honor.
The biggest reveal to me is that Matt is Australian?? I've been operating under the impression that this channel was British the whole time 🤔🤯 (I'm American btw.)
“The odds of it being Matt Parker that kills us all are slim, but as of now, non-zero” is a much more threatening sentence when it’s Matt Parker saying it
James Grime recently referred to himself humourously as "ITMA - It's That Man Again" ... and that was the catchphrase and the name of the radio show of none other than 2718 Tommy Handley.
Although the first five significant digits of pi are indeed 3,1415, I would find it much more satisfying if you searched for 3142 and 31416 instead. BTW, I'd also search for 314
I think Matt was right in his initial guess of what would be the final sentence said in reference to his own name. The shareholder meeting determining that Matt Parker has nothing of value would come *after* Brady’s offering, where they find it’s made of gold. Obviously, they’d strip all the value from it when they find it has value, and THEN there’d be a meeting where they decide it’s no longer worth it.
Actually there is one asteroid that is named after a pet: 2309 Mr. Spock is named after the feline companion of astronomer James Gibson. The cat was so called because he was"imperturbable, logical, intelligent, and had pointed ears".
Asteroid 271828 should be Euler. The IAU really needs to get on fixing that. Alternatively, Asteroid 57721 (gamma) could be Euler... or Mascheroni, if the previous asteroid is named Euler. Not sure if the latter number is unnamed, though.
See Matt's video at Stand-up Maths: th-cam.com/video/GyNbLtiAgj4/w-d-xo.html
Brady's astronomy channel Deep Sky Videos: th-cam.com/users/DeepSkyVideos
asteroid 628318 should be named stevemould
Mattparker: Mostly harmless
Asteroid 123456 should be named LetMeIn.
Just for your information Matt, the object with an orbital period of 3.14 years has not been named yet. You might want to propose someone's name for it.
asteroid 12345 should obviously be named 'password'
Nice
"That's the same as what I have on my luggage!"
@@TangoWolf09beat me to it
@@TangoWolf09 Thus it should be called "Spaceball"
@@TangoWolf09remind me to change my password.
Coincidentally, 314159 is also a prime number, giving Matt a doubly interesting asteroid number
It’s a twin prime even! 314161 = 314159 + 2 is a prime too
Actually I was wondering this.
Thanks for looking it up and pointing it out!
👍 💪
According to OEIS A060421, the next time this will happen is at 38 digits, and 16208 digits after that. I feel like he hasn't realised how cool this number is
Point in case: has anyone checked whether there's also a James Grime asteroid yet?
@@birdy_ not only is it a twin prime, it is made up of three 2 digit twin primes! 31 (29), 41 (43) and 59 (61) are all primes. 314159 is also an emorp, meaning its reverse (951413) is also prime!
something not as interesting is that 14159, 4159 and 59 are prime (but sadly 159 isnt so there isnt a pattern)
Matt telegraphing the hell out of the reveal and then Brady putting down the camera and walking off was delicious.
i was cackling 😂😂😂
Watching this after watching Matt's video was a funny experience
The year: 2718
Prospector: "scans are in from 314159 Mattparker."
Mission control: "What are the results?"
Prospector: "Mostly just rock. We didn't find anything. No water ice, metals are too scarce to bother with a mining operation."
Mission control: "Well, we gave it a go. That's the important part."
The y(e)ar
real parker asteroid
I predict that before that year some nerd will have launched a kickstarter project to send a robot to Mattparker and etch a Parker Square into its surface.
Prospector: "I've detected an issue. The asteroid rotated almost synchronously to my ship and I've scanned only one side. Should I probe Mattparker's backside?"
Mission Control: Affirmative. Try going as deep as you can.
Someone tell Elon we need a manned mission to Mattparker to etch a Parker Square into it.
I'm glad that at 9:50 you clarified that the picture is not to scale, and that there isn't a gigantic orbiting Matt Parker head constantly in the skies
That’s not to exclude; for all we know the disclaimer could be only for the size of the earth represented then.
@@skedfinger or the size of the orbits and the sun
It's not to scale bc the sun is so large that it would appear like a straight line if we were to see the earth had a green and blue surface, not necessarily bc of the astroids 😂
Asteroid 12345 isn't named, but there are the names 13579 Allodd and 24680 Alleven. :)
Someone said it 12345 should be called password 😂
@@sahasananth987 I was searching the commend to see if someone suggested a Spaceball related name for it, I think Melbrooks would be fitting. If he already has something astronomical named after him then Spaceball as an asteroid is kind of a space ball.
@@gavinjared1135 there is also a math operator !! Called double factorial for ex 8!! = 8*6*4*2 and 11!! = 9*7*5*3 basically it depends on parity and we can name it after the guy who created the operator
@@SlyPearTree what’s spaceball??
@@sahasananth987 A classic Mel Brooks movie, in it two things have 12345 as passwords.
Considering the recent discovery, I was really hoping you would mention the asteroid 8191 Mersenne. :)
(Because 8191 = 2^13 - 1 is a Mersenne prime.)
oh that is sexy
The odds of all life on the planet being wiped out by Matt Parker are slim, but never zero.
Hahahahhahaha
Unfortunately, Mattparker is too small to end life on Earth
@@chrismanuel9768 any asteroid could end life on earth if it's moving fast enough
I thought it was a million-to-1?
Oh no, wait, that's of Martians...
Can't wait for the Tau asteroid to be named Steve Mould
that absolutely has to happen
LOL so true
Vi Hart for the ogs.
@@charliesteiner2334VI HART
628318 is not claimed !!!
13:36 "probably the last time someone says Matt Parker in all of history to refer to me, will be centuries from now in a shareholder report for some asteroid mining company. it will say, 'Matt Parker has nothing of worth and requires no further investigational study'"
LMAO
Worldwide there are students who struggle with mathematics. Matt has brought joy of exploration and discovery and humour into mathematics, what a wonderful contribution! This is well deserved! Congratulations!
I wish I hadn't seen Matt's video first! The reveal at 7:38 would've been awesome
I haven't and can confirm, it was awesome!
this is the first Numberphile video I have ever seen without brown paper!!
They are rare. Maybe you get to name it now?
You always watch them on the 'throne'?
@@Simbosan If you're using brown paper on the throne, you have something backass.
There are far more asteroids waiting to be named than names waiting to be asteroided.
Absolute gold
Some quick googling finds someone else's analysis 2014 of US death records for the previous 70 years, where approaching 90 million people have over 30 million unique names listed.
The same analyst also looked at an October 2010 list of 170 million Facebook names, which had 100 million different names.
As of May 2022, there were roughly 1.1 million asteroids either numbered or awaiting numbering.
So in terms of asteroids that have been discovered and are in the pipeline to be named, there are many more names available than asteroids in the queue. On the other hand, since anything smaller than Ceres down to rocks about a meter in diameter which orbits within the inner solar system qualifies as an asteroid (and some definitions include some objects in the outer solar system, like the trojans), it seems likely that there are more asteroids than recognised names.
On the gripping hand, even just allowing two English words from a basic vocabulary of 20,000 (estimates put a typical vocabulary somewhere in the 15k-50k range) that would be 400 million possible names; taking the "correct horse battery staple" approach using four common words from a 2,000 word vocabulary gives 16 trillion possible names (enough to name every star in thirty galaxies the size of the Milky Way with some left over); 160 quadrillion if you start from a 20k vocabulary. With five words from a 30k vocabulary, you could name every individual grain of sand on Earth. If we really wanted to name every single asteroid, we'd run out of space rocks before running out of character strings...
@@rmsgreyI appreciate the unnecessary effort put into this. Perhaps you should get an asteroid too
If we started running out of asteroids we could just shoot some and split them in two.
Wikipedia: "On 15 August 2024, the main-belt asteroid 314159 Mattparker[a] was named in his honour. The citation highlights Parker's biennial "Pi Day challenges", stating that they have helped to popularise mathematics.[40][41]"
Biennial means twice a year.
Didn't know he did it twice per year..
@@aikumaDK "Biennial" means every two years. "Biannual" is the word for twice a year.
Annual
@@thetomasklos No, "semiannual" means twice a year.
@@renerpho It does!
a huge congratulations to Matt, but also consider this my official petition to the IAU to name Astroid BradyNumberHere after Brady Haran.
So how do we get 628318 called stevemould?
628318 should go to Vihart. Steve would agree.
@@radguitar1 6283 and 62832 are still available as well.
Why is everyone spamming tau? Astroids haven't gotten up to that index quite yet
@@charliethunkman Asteroids are numbered up to number 740000.
Michael Hartl
12:15 - Well, *314159 is both pi-like **_and_** a prime* (did you really not notice that, or just forgot to mention it?). After that, you'd have to wait for asteroid no. 314151926535897932384626433832795028841.
A060421 in the OEIS 😉
I wonder how long it will take to reach that number and what size they are down to then. Probably a grain of dust in the Oort cloud...
@@zapfanzapfan That asteroid will never exist.
If you take the mass of the Solar System (the Sun included), and divide it by that number, you get about 6 micrograms, which would literally be a grain of dust. But if you exclude the Sun and planets, and only take the mass actually left for asteroids, comets etc., you get something of the order of 10^-16 grams. That's not even dust. It's too small to be seen with light waves.
Immensely disappointed that it's not 314158, or better yet 233747 after our favorite set of squares that don't add up to 3,051
314159 is already off from pi by 5 orders of magnitude - that's probably far enough off for Matt.
Matt has such a great poker face. That was so funny, I was smiling so much.
I'm so happy for you, Matt Parker. You've earned it dude.
Is the single pixel we see of Mattparker the real parker square?
It just reminds me that Matt parker for all of his self-deprecating humour and common guy charm is still better than the rest of us.
😂 It's very cute of Matt that he didn't tell Brady beforehand. Congratulations 🎉Matt ☄️
14:44 Let's just hope that the Parker Asteroid calculation doesn't end up being the Parker Square calculation.
"Where do Matt get these crazy ideas for videos?"
7:40 Matt, you're ridiculous! And we are all here for it!
Congratulations!!
The minor planet Tau is twice as big as Matt's minor planet.
I think we need to do more research into whether MattParker is a threat to life on Earth
14:00 Rookie error- I should've finished watching the video before commenting
It is a non-zero probability! So, we gotta be careful with mattparker.
a-parker--lypse?
Yes we see the vector game Asteroid easter egg, nice touch.
1:38 How appropriate that asteroid Fibonacci was numbered F_20.
Sadly, Euler is 2002
Yep. Acknowledged at 14:50, in case anyone missed it.
I'm unreasonable happy for you Matt! 🎉🎉🎉 You deserve it!
One of the best videos in this channel! Congratulations Parker
The first thing I had to look up was 24601, which I was beyond pleased to discover was named Valjean.
Nice one 🙂 I also like asteroid 46610 (not as obvious, but equally charming).
great reveal. I actually did not see that coming.
I legit just teared up.
I don't know why I wasn't expecting the payoff at 7:42, but I wasn't and it was glorious.
Yes. The video had been quite underwhelming up to this point. Then it swept you of your feet :)
I was SO MAD when i found out Matt Parker took 314159 for himself. That one should have been simply named Pi, and he should take 314158 for himself. It is appropriately close, but not quite there.
THE AUDACITY
Funny xD but also someone else did it. We need to be mad at em xD
314158 can still be "Parker's PI"
@@adityakhanna113 Get the pitchforks!
dont tell me your grandfather is named jerome....
I don't think he had a say
Wow, what a flex. That smile of pure pride on his face... A true nerd.
8:13 forget mic drops , now we have full blown camera drops 😭
Loving at 13:28 literally Brady is mining Matt Parker for content about mining mattparker for content.
For the sake of rounding accuracy, 31416 is Peteworden, named after a former director of NASA's Ames Research Centre.
I saw Matt's video first. The viewers seeing this one first must have gone crazy
Congratulations Matt. I had some great news this week as well, a newborn granddaughter.
Named Matt Parker?!!!
Congratulations!
Yoo congratulations!
@@briandeschene8424 Hopefully not, but congratulations Kerrynewman1221 🙂
Having asteroid 314159 named Mattparker is perfect. Having asteroid 314159 named something else feels like an incorrect answer. Congrats, Matt!
This is such a whimsical thing for Matt to do!
It used to be that a Parker success meant an almost success. Not any more! Congrats Matt Parker!
First off, congratulations Matt, what an incredible honor, and well deserved. However I gotta say it would have been a more fitting tribute, or at least funnier, if they'd gone with, say, asteroid 314157.
This entire video is the Meta-math equivalent of a RickRoll.
i think maybe the most shocking thing to me is that you don't have to consent to having an asteroid named after you, or even know about it at all
Lovely!
The same video that qualifies Matt’s ‘not to scale’ cranial graphic also identifies the infinitesimal chance of catastrophy as non-zero and slim.
❤❤❤
This has to be one of the biggest plot twists ever. Come on... No one expected that..
The absolute best lede-burying I’ve ever encountered
If I ever get the chance to attend a Pi day calculation by hand, I will bring a protest board that will say, “MattParker (asteroid 314159) will kill us all.” Granted, I probably won’t be allowed in with the board, as it contains a spoiler for the first few digits of Pi… Congratulations to Matt for this, truly an honor.
i am so happy that you have a Pi Asteroid named after you Matt
Im happy for you Matt
Methinks that "Brady Haran" would make a great name for as-yet-unnamed asteroid-12345!
😏
The biggest reveal to me is that Matt is Australian?? I've been operating under the impression that this channel was British the whole time 🤔🤯 (I'm American btw.)
do you not know what Australian accent sounds like?
He moved from Australia to the UK
That's awesome. Well deserved Matt
“The odds of it being Matt Parker that kills us all are slim, but as of now, non-zero” is a much more threatening sentence when it’s Matt Parker saying it
James Grime recently referred to himself humourously as "ITMA - It's That Man Again" ... and that was the catchphrase and the name of the radio show of none other than 2718 Tommy Handley.
Thanks Brady for this one, it's funny that Pi 314159 was named after Matt Parker, Mr. Pi did it 🙂
About five minutes in I thought to myself, "This is gonna be another video where Matt reveals it's all about him, isn't it?"
This is the kind of joy the world needs right now
I can't wait to see the collab between all the currently active youtubers with asteroids named after them.
I mean the e numbers should be named Euler, so Euler 1, Euler 2, Euler 3, Euler 4, Euler 5
If 314159 is Mattparker, then surely 986960 ought to be Parkersquare(d)
matt's shirt is wonderful!!!!!!!
Although the first five significant digits of pi are indeed 3,1415, I would find it much more satisfying if you searched for 3142 and 31416 instead. BTW, I'd also search for 314
It's truly a Parker Planet.
I've always said Matt is like a modern-day Tommy Handley
1 is Mercury, 2 is Venus, 3 is Earth so Pi is obviously the Moon!
the chance of Matt Parker destroying all life on earth are low, but never zero
Congrats on the planet, Matt! :0
That's awesome, Matt!! You got your own pi in the sky! (Also loved the "Not To Scale" designations used in this vid 😄)
I think Matt was right in his initial guess of what would be the final sentence said in reference to his own name.
The shareholder meeting determining that Matt Parker has nothing of value would come *after* Brady’s offering, where they find it’s made of gold. Obviously, they’d strip all the value from it when they find it has value, and THEN there’d be a meeting where they decide it’s no longer worth it.
Although there is an asteroid called Mobius, so far we've only seen one side of it.
“Planet Matt Parker” is some ninth level (okay, pi level) geekery. Congratulations!
Actually there is one asteroid that is named after a pet: 2309 Mr. Spock is named after the feline companion of astronomer James Gibson. The cat was so called because he was"imperturbable, logical, intelligent, and had pointed ears".
MattParker is a gold nugget in the skies, even if it isn't!!
Been spoiled by a problem squared came here exactly knowing who would talking in this one... Still can appreciate the build up :D
I think Matt Parker's terrible Python code is the most likely thing to kill us 😂
i saw the parker square. He deserves this!
All these worlds are yours, except Matt Parker. Attempt no landing there.
You should start a kickstarter for a cubesat to be sent to your asteroid
Love how they snuck the 80s computer game Asteroids in the video spread.
Watching the reveal slowly unfold while having watched Matt Parker's video first had me squirming in my seat hahaha.
That made me very happy.
Good on you Matt.
11111 Repunit. That made me smile.
"Sun... Earth... Matt Parker" 🖤
now you're the 2nd youtuber with a asteroid named after you that I know
Scott Manley, correct?
You should add Carykh (10003) and Dr. Becky (35419) in that list too ;)
and Sabine Hossenfelder. (16648)
(31453) Arnaudthiry, named after a french astronomy youtuber.
And (13943) Hankgreen
Of course now this means we need to find asteroids for all the other Numberphile alumni as well as the other Brady educational video universe, too.
Planet Mattparker: Mostly Harmless
A Parker Planet? Ehat could possibly...
Seriously, a brilliancy!!
Congrats Matt
Is this planet square shaped?
Jokes aside, congratz, Matt! You surely deserve it
Amazing! Congratulations
So where can i find the kickstarter to back the space mission to Matt Parker
You can tell how flustered Brady is by how much the camera is moving around at the reveal 😄
Woah, do7ble upload Matt parker on his asteroid an numberphile and stand up maths, noice
Asteroid 271828 should be Euler. The IAU really needs to get on fixing that. Alternatively, Asteroid 57721 (gamma) could be Euler... or Mascheroni, if the previous asteroid is named Euler. Not sure if the latter number is unnamed, though.
Euler (Work Number) : )