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2019 AQ3

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EntityQ60487000· pop 6· linked from 63 articles

planetoid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 2019 AQ3 is referenced by 63 other articles, and connects out to apsis, Minor planet designation and Minor Planet Center.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 2019, Atira asteroids and JPL Small-Body Database ID same as Wikidata.

Its subject is documented across 5 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

Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
Atira asteroid
Diameter
1.4
Orbital period
164.9497029309477
Image
2019AQ3orbit polar.jpg
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discoverer or inventor
Zwicky Transient Facility
Commons category
2019 AQ3
absolute magnitude
17.48
orbital eccentricity
0.3143403120366312
semi-major axis of an orbit
0.5886205324682751
periapsis
0.4035933706210295
apoapsis
0.7736476943155207
orbital inclination
47.2196786244532
longitude of ascending node
64.47723540349483
argument of periapsis
163.1727913566085
mean anomaly
316.0315000126151
time of periapsis
2461020.6460861424
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