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11104 Airion

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Also known as Airion

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 11104 Airion connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 11001–12000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1995, Discoveries by AMOS and Minor planet object redirects (numbered).

Vinony links it to 16 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
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
7.613
Orbital period
1841.751290228469
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provisional designation
1995 TQ
time of discovery or invention
1995-10-06
orbital eccentricity
0.108826167273779
orbital inclination
11.49602100380099
periapsis
2.620499793942562
apoapsis
3.260507250274837
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.9405035221087
mean anomaly
24.80519552154586
longitude of ascending node
241.6480170128952
argument of periapsis
109.4301919104523
absolute magnitude
13.0
site of astronomical discovery
Haleakalā Observatory
albedo
0.278
rotation period
20.416
time of periapsis
2460873.597219844
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