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14114 Randyray

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Also known as Randyray

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 14114 Randyray connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 14001–15000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1998, Discoveries by LINEAR and Minor planet object redirects (numbered).

Its subject is documented across 17 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
14115 Melaas
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
4.614
Orbital period
1351.487847904152
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provisional designation
1998 QE35
time of discovery or invention
1998-08-17
orbital eccentricity
0.1798073592553606
orbital inclination
3.486920060690615
periapsis
1.962117510955642
apoapsis
2.822410936347342
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.392264223651492
mean anomaly
94.77955764771319
longitude of ascending node
141.5430216181104
argument of periapsis
243.3404128927933
absolute magnitude
15.57
albedo
0.057
time of periapsis
2460644.6849433593
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