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(186728) 2004 CH2

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main-belt asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, (186728) 2004 CH2 connects to HTML element, JPL Small-Body Database and list of minor planets: 186001–187000.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 2004, 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
2.686
Orbital period
1311.130321044366
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time of discovery or invention
2004-02-12
discoverer or inventor
James Whitney Young
provisional designation
2004 CH2
site of astronomical discovery
Table Mountain Observatory
albedo
0.056
absolute magnitude
16.61
orbital eccentricity
0.159818143244472
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.344399514210505
periapsis
1.96972193682614
apoapsis
2.719077091594871
orbital inclination
9.62757005015363
longitude of ascending node
147.2047282735091
argument of periapsis
67.06353348987089
mean anomaly
334.9052442186089
time of periapsis
2461091.895820012
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