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(180103) 2003 FX6

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main-belt asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, (180103) 2003 FX6 connects to HTML element, JPL Small-Body Database and list of minor planets: 180001–181000.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 2003, Background asteroids and Discoveries by James Whitney Young.

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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
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
5.88
Orbital period
1868.334381637307
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time of discovery or invention
2003-03-26
discoverer or inventor
James Whitney Young
provisional designation
2003 FX6
site of astronomical discovery
Table Mountain Observatory
albedo
0.029
absolute magnitude
15.71
orbital eccentricity
0.1020093443684897
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.968730579854965
periapsis
2.665892319797274
apoapsis
3.271568839912657
orbital inclination
13.04001246810468
longitude of ascending node
60.69311893339394
argument of periapsis
183.6324937216091
mean anomaly
104.6196430951257
time of periapsis
2460457.5431216964
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