Skip to content
EntityQ152736· pop 27

4139 Ulʹyanin

Sign in to save

Also known as Ul'yanin, Ulʹyanin

asteroid

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, 4139 Ulʹyanin connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 4001–5000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1975, Discoveries by Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova and Minor planet object redirects (numbered).

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.

via NASA APOD

Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Named after
Sergey Ulyanin
Followed by
4140 Branham
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
12.707
Orbital period
2037.962772291318
Show 17 more facts
discoverer or inventor
Tamara Smirnova
site of astronomical discovery
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
provisional designation
1989 AK7
time of discovery or invention
1975-11-02
orbital eccentricity
0.1636812259905415
apoapsis
3.660714904709127
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.145805589149275
mean anomaly
47.23911144069757
longitude of ascending node
134.0561106954768
argument of periapsis
181.2057283530607
absolute magnitude
12.37
orbital inclination
1.592488732832299
periapsis
2.630896273589424
Commons category
4139 Ulʹyanin
albedo
0.158
time of periapsis
2460733.079026355
Sources (2)

via Wikidata · CC0

Connections

Categories