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11460 Juliafang

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Also known as (11460) 1981 EZ15, Juliafang

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 11460 Juliafang connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 11001–12000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1981, Discoveries by Schelte J. Bus and Flora asteroids.

Its subject is documented across 11 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
Orbital period
1227.517195252122
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site of astronomical discovery
Siding Spring Observatory
discoverer or inventor
Schelte J. Bus
provisional designation
1981 EZ15
time of discovery or invention
1981-03-01
orbital eccentricity
0.1125378248162203
mean anomaly
206.6786985467662
longitude of ascending node
303.0454986418514
argument of periapsis
127.4256832214001
absolute magnitude
15.89
orbital inclination
5.096370467892717
periapsis
1.991143790139393
apoapsis
2.496132052861032
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.243637921500213
time of periapsis
2461523.290372034
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