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Within Vinony's link graph, 34552 Belousova connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 34001–35000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 2000, Background asteroids and Discoveries by LINEAR.

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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
8.609
Orbital period
1991.477537274621
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time of discovery or invention
2000-09-24
provisional designation
2000 SV242
albedo
0.024
orbital eccentricity
0.09005711872912553
absolute magnitude
14.67
orbital inclination
1.8272675190883
periapsis
2.818807739676271
apoapsis
3.376762988322337
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.097785363999304
mean anomaly
105.4818326595442
longitude of ascending node
323.3652499078029
argument of periapsis
155.2997326285106
time of periapsis
2460416.986943522
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