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Vinony's link graph records 18 inbound references to 2006 JY26, and connects out to Amor asteroid, near-Earth object and JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System.
Vinony files it under Apollo asteroids, Astronomical objects discovered in 2006 and Discoveries by the Catalina Sky Survey.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Picture of the Day · NASA
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.
via NASA APOD
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- near-Earth asteroid
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- Apollo asteroid
- Orbital period
- 370.8713183052825
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- orbital inclination
- 1.438448224003225
- time of discovery or invention
- 2006-05-06
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.08317068805463029
- absolute magnitude
- 28.4
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 1.010221361167997
- periapsis
- 0.9262005554721692
- apoapsis
- 1.094242166863824
- longitude of ascending node
- 43.46535524787248
- argument of periapsis
- 273.6872867585649
- mean anomaly
- 8.902324632647964
- time of periapsis
- 2460991.328842021
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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