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3442 Yashin

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Also known as Yashin

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 3442 Yashin connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 3001–4000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1978, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Lyudmila Zhuravleva.

Its subject is documented across 26 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
Named after
Lev Yashin
Followed by
3443 Leetsungdao
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
25.708
Orbital period
2038.488191893475
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discoverer or inventor
Lyudmila Zhuravlyova
site of astronomical discovery
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
provisional designation
1984 WY
time of discovery or invention
1978-10-02
orbital eccentricity
0.1407181287649067
orbital inclination
12.24431430854632
periapsis
2.703598300808499
apoapsis
3.589094216775905
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.146346258792202
mean anomaly
145.0702671565488
longitude of ascending node
100.0383582021715
argument of periapsis
296.684802934301
absolute magnitude
11.72
Commons category
3442 Yashin
albedo
0.066
rotation period
8.552
time of periapsis
2460179.044370574
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