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15818 DeVeny

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Also known as DeVeny

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 15818 DeVeny connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 15001–16000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1994, Background asteroids and Discoveries by the Spacewatch project.

Vinony links it to 16 Wikipedia language editions.

Picture of the Day · NASA

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.

via NASA APOD

Small body data

(15818) DeVeny

Orbit class
Main-belt
Semi-major axis
2.362 AU
Eccentricity
0.069
Inclination
0.787 °
Absolute magnitude
16.710 H

via Minor Planet Center

Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
2.924
Orbital period
1325.361842574603
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discoverer or inventor
Spacewatch
site of astronomical discovery
Kitt Peak National Observatory
provisional designation
2000 GJ47
time of discovery or invention
1994-09-12
orbital eccentricity
0.06885299768657774
orbital inclination
0.7867309434155694
periapsis
2.198748756687358
apoapsis
2.523918558408102
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.36133365754773
mean anomaly
70.55716176112699
longitude of ascending node
274.6417142527105
argument of periapsis
232.7776740752927
absolute magnitude
16.71
albedo
0.057
time of periapsis
2460740.739528004
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