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Within Vinony's link graph, 342000 Neumünster connects to HTML element, JPL Small-Body Database and list of minor planets: 341001–342000.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 2008, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Wolfgang Ries.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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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
- Orbital period
- 1285.102491097583
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- Commons category
- 342000 Neumünster
- time of discovery or invention
- 2008-09-02
- discoverer or inventor
- Wolfgang Ries
- provisional designation
- 2008 RV26
- absolute magnitude
- 17.35
- site of astronomical discovery
- Altschwendt
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.07504085569783897
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.313269467613716
- periapsis
- 2.139679747304299
- apoapsis
- 2.486859187923134
- orbital inclination
- 6.255465725477334
- longitude of ascending node
- 332.2316822767963
- argument of periapsis
- 172.0272633753291
- mean anomaly
- 160.5296309053001
- time of periapsis
- 2460427.452698413
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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