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18992 Katharvard

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Also known as Katharvard

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 18992 Katharvard connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 18001–19000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 2000, Discoveries by LINEAR and Eos asteroids.

Vinony links it to 15 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

Instance of
asteroid
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
7.295
Orbital period
1883.472159388746
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provisional designation
2000 RK40
time of discovery or invention
2000-09-03
orbital eccentricity
0.0114635988039771
absolute magnitude
13.76
mean anomaly
259.8591581269256
longitude of ascending node
283.8486831874762
argument of periapsis
141.6190347238364
orbital inclination
8.683993209524528
periapsis
2.95052875538914
apoapsis
3.018960586266497
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.984744670827818
albedo
0.076
rotation period
3.103
time of periapsis
2461524.4235769045
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