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25139 Roatsch

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Also known as Roatsch

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 25139 Roatsch connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 25001–26000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1998, Discoveries by LONEOS and Minor planet object redirects (numbered).

Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.

Picture of the Day · NASA

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
7.553
Orbital period
1695.341858570163
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time of discovery or invention
1998-09-22
site of astronomical discovery
Anderson Mesa Station
provisional designation
1998 SN25
orbital eccentricity
0.0789816015267525
orbital inclination
5.528122854322612
periapsis
2.562757685589548
apoapsis
3.00229441290876
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.782526049249154
mean anomaly
229.8654327887618
longitude of ascending node
139.6813263778208
argument of periapsis
321.8597831905676
absolute magnitude
14.11
albedo
0.088
time of periapsis
2461613.3404973336
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