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Within Vinony's link graph, (33132) 1998 CD4 connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 33001–34000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1998, Discoveries by SCAP and Maria asteroids.

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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
5.857
Orbital period
1546.194578632322
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time of discovery or invention
1998-02-13
site of astronomical discovery
Xinglong Station
provisional designation
1998 CD4
albedo
0.225
orbital eccentricity
0.06686065769882352
orbital inclination
16.06903491906507
periapsis
2.441876224855763
apoapsis
2.795
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.61683985891534
mean anomaly
214.1336071223384
longitude of ascending node
124.3049889974549
argument of periapsis
350.7785955947676
absolute magnitude
13.68
rotation period
2.64364
time of periapsis
2461626.993960756
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