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49350 Katheynix

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Also known as Katheynix

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 49350 Katheynix connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 49001–50000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1998, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Walter R. Cooney Jr..

Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.

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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
Orbital period
1368.029100246755
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time of discovery or invention
1998-11-27
discoverer or inventor
Walter R. Cooney, Jr.
site of astronomical discovery
Highland Road Park Observatory
provisional designation
2000 FW20
orbital eccentricity
0.08541835969389198
absolute magnitude
14.79
mean anomaly
116.7172791400558
argument of periapsis
295.7992004138225
longitude of ascending node
76.07627977893482
orbital inclination
6.915367733368797
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.411744365226917
periapsis
2.205737117548247
apoapsis
2.617751612905587
time of periapsis
2460556.964904541
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