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(190118) 2004 VR60

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main-belt asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, (190118) 2004 VR60 connects to HTML element, JPL Small-Body Database and list of minor planets: 190001–191000.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 2004, Background asteroids and Discoveries by James Whitney Young.

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

Instance of
asteroid
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
4.353
Orbital period
1658.786479219303
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time of discovery or invention
2004-11-10
discoverer or inventor
James Whitney Young
provisional designation
2004 VR60
site of astronomical discovery
Table Mountain Observatory
albedo
0.041
absolute magnitude
15.91
orbital eccentricity
0.2376412926536436
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.742382569768786
periapsis
2.09067923093811
apoapsis
3.394085908599461
orbital inclination
8.265104939050266
longitude of ascending node
62.17166459050555
argument of periapsis
271.4835261072799
mean anomaly
286.7019418927313
time of periapsis
2461338.238410393
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