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5433 Kairen

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Also known as Kairen, (5433) Kairen

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 5433 Kairen connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 5001–6000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1988, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Takuo Kojima.

Its subject is documented across 22 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
Followed by
5434 Tomwhitney
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
8.513
Orbital period
1478.41483219474
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discoverer or inventor
Takuo Kojima
provisional designation
1988 VZ2
time of discovery or invention
1988-11-10
orbital eccentricity
0.2238370469590729
mean anomaly
38.61976317075229
longitude of ascending node
269.7235683749927
argument of periapsis
161.5682975057128
absolute magnitude
12.74
orbital inclination
7.807314134472428
periapsis
1.97129444920919
apoapsis
3.108294679557805
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.539794564383497
albedo
0.267
rotation period
10.7624
time of periapsis
2460841.899914757
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