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Within Vinony's link graph, (10519) 1990 RO2 connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 10001–11000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1990, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Henry E. Holt.

Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.

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Pathfinder on Mars

Pathfinder on Mars

2026-07-04

On July 4th, 1997, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft bounced like a giant beach ball at least 15 times before it came to rest on the surface of Mars at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time. After its then novel airbag-assisted landing sequence was completed, Pathfinder transmitted this color mosaic to mission operators on Earth. In the scene from another world, the Mars Sojourner robot rover is visible in the foreground, crouched on top of the unfolded Pathfinder. About the size of a large house cat, the six-wheeled, solar-powered Sojourner became the first successful Martian rover. Surrounding Pathfinder are deflated airbags and the rock-strewn terrain of the Ares Vallis floodplain. In the distance Martian hills appear against a dusty brownish sky. The Pathfinder lander was subsequently renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Followed by
(10520) 1990 RS2
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
3.033
Orbital period
1197.53403297399
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site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory
discoverer or inventor
Henry E. Holt
provisional designation
1992 BZ2
time of discovery or invention
1990-09-15
albedo
0.304
orbital eccentricity
0.1272811953990342
apoapsis
2.487855894719556
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.206952360133096
mean anomaly
323.3335265037698
longitude of ascending node
309.0551073891815
argument of periapsis
329.7189839854883
orbital inclination
3.767886431553731
periapsis
1.926048825546636
absolute magnitude
14.83
rotation period
17.011
time of periapsis
2461122.470416336
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