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Vinony's link graph records 7 inbound references to 15017 Cuppy, and connects out to asteroid belt, Minor Planet Center and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1998, Discoveries by LONEOS and Flora asteroids.
Vinony links it to 18 Wikipedia language editions.
Picture of the Day · NASA
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.
via NASA APOD
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- asteroid
- Named after
- Will Cuppy
- Followed by
- (15018) 1998 SM34
- Follows
- (15016) 1998 SO1
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 1.795
- Orbital period
- 1296.142635454565
- Image
- Cuppy Summed and Flat.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search
- site of astronomical discovery
- Anderson Mesa Station
- provisional designation
- 1998 SS25
- time of discovery or invention
- 1998-09-22
- orbital inclination
- 6.211619740281991
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1613331234544775
- absolute magnitude
- 15.85
- periapsis
- 1.951157842554401
- apoapsis
- 2.701840617552287
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.326499230053344
- mean anomaly
- 207.3461816294341
- longitude of ascending node
- 63.79117561314554
- argument of periapsis
- 348.1844236377408
- Commons category
- 15017 Cuppy
- albedo
- 0.5
- time of periapsis
- 2461550.1142290416
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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