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(182926) 2002 FU6

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Also known as 2002 FU6

Trans-Neptunian object

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Within Vinony's link graph, (182926) 2002 FU6 connects to HTML element, JPL Small-Body Database and list of minor planets: 182001–183000.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 2002, Cold classical Kuiper belt objects and Discoveries by Brett J. Gladman.

Its subject is documented across 7 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

Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
trans-Neptunian object
Orbital period
112901.459773937
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time of discovery or invention
2002-03-20
discoverer or inventor
Brett J. Gladman
site of astronomical discovery
Mauna Kea Observatories
provisional designation
2002 FU6
orbital eccentricity
0.1447008776957932
absolute magnitude
7.33
mean anomaly
320.4259932856241
argument of periapsis
189.9804791515001
longitude of ascending node
55.39894327485612
orbital inclination
2.196150420934706
semi-major axis of an orbit
45.7159153874958
periapsis
39.10078230625854
apoapsis
52.33104846873306
time of periapsis
2473411.5086865462
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