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18781 Indaram

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Also known as Indaram

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 18781 Indaram connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 18001–19000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1999, Discoveries by LINEAR and Minor planet object redirects (numbered).

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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
Followed by
18782 Joanrho
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
3.254
Orbital period
1361.810608278673
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provisional designation
1999 JH45
time of discovery or invention
1999-05-10
orbital eccentricity
0.1786513826662535
apoapsis
2.833985087927744
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.404430291777135
mean anomaly
356.7327372454233
longitude of ascending node
202.8932563709776
argument of periapsis
86.9908449910655
absolute magnitude
14.75
orbital inclination
1.788317776466815
periapsis
1.974875495626527
albedo
0.183
rotation period
4.393
time of periapsis
2461012.85942522
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