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153298 Paulmyers

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Also known as Paulmyers

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 153298 Paulmyers connects to HTML element, JPL Small-Body Database and list of minor planets: 153001–154000.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 2001, Discoveries by David Healy (astronomer) and Hygiea asteroids.

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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
Named after
PZ Myers
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Orbital period
2072.212677571056
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discoverer or inventor
David Healy
time of discovery or invention
2001-03-29
site of astronomical discovery
Junk Bond Observatory
provisional designation
2003 UK104
orbital eccentricity
0.1437678382481065
absolute magnitude
15.22
mean anomaly
62.73880368667938
argument of periapsis
70.74898645223824
longitude of ascending node
194.76705709554
orbital inclination
5.135397062332856
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.180953102934017
periapsis
2.723634351756587
apoapsis
3.638271854111447
time of periapsis
2460639.3662656243
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