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Within Vinony's link graph, 1170 Siva is referenced by 10 other articles, and connects out to asteroid spectral type, Paul Herget and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1930, Discoveries by Eugène Joseph Delporte and Mars-crossing asteroids.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
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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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Key facts
- Discovered by
- E. Delporte
- Discovery site
- Uccle Obs.
- Discovery date
- 29 September 1930
- Named after
- Shiva (Hindu deity)
- Alternative designations
- 1930 SQ
- Minor planet category
- Mars-crosser , Phocaea
- Observation arc
- 85.19 yr (31,116 days)
- Aphelion
- 3.0245 AU
- Perihelion
- 1.6291 AU
- Semi major axis
- 2.3268 AU
- Orbital period sidereal
- 3.55 yr (1,296 days)
- Mean anomaly
- 94.741 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 16 39.72 / day
- Inclination
- 22.184°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 0.9218°
- Argument of perihelion
- 59.391°
- Earth moid
- 0.7263 AU
- Mars moid
- 0.3760 AU
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- asteroid
- Named after
- Shiva
- Followed by
- 1171 Rusthawelia
- Follows
- 1169 Alwine
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 10.37
- Orbital period
- 1295.637642762299
- Image
- 001170-asteroid shape model (1170) Siva.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Eugène Joseph Delporte
- site of astronomical discovery
- Royal Observatory of Belgium
- provisional designation
- 1930 SQ
- time of discovery or invention
- 1930-09-29
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.3010225663494245
- orbital inclination
- 22.16130302125924
- periapsis
- 1.62574805012348
- apoapsis
- 3.026041755543421
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.325894902833451
- mean anomaly
- 264.0665441022605
- longitude of ascending node
- 0.8280043289922925
- argument of periapsis
- 59.46173980009644
- absolute magnitude
- 12.36
- Commons category
- 1170 Siva
- albedo
- 0.1751
- rotation period
- 3.13637
- asteroid spectral type
- S-type asteroid
- time of periapsis
- 2461345.763879615
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
1170 Siva, provisional designation 1930 SQ, is a stony Phocaea asteroid and large Mars-crosser from the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 29 September 1930, by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte at Uccle Observatory in Belgium, and later named after the Hindu deity Shiva.
Orbit and classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “1170 Siva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.