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5765 Izett

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Also known as Izett, (5765) Izett

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 5765 Izett connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 5001–6000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1986, Barcelona asteroids and Discoveries by Carolyn S. Shoemaker.

Vinony links it to 21 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

Small body data

(5765) Izett

Orbit class
Main-belt
Semi-major axis
2.639 AU
Eccentricity
0.270
Inclination
31.306 °
Absolute magnitude
12.610 H

via Minor Planet Center

Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
8.985
Orbital period
1566.265555031476
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discoverer or inventor
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory
provisional designation
1986 GU
time of discovery or invention
1986-04-04
orbital eccentricity
0.2695211578002513
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.639437079610549
mean anomaly
132.26946138265
longitude of ascending node
81.2451722448652
argument of periapsis
59.42804183883019
absolute magnitude
12.57
orbital inclination
31.30870463628826
periapsis
1.928052941973
apoapsis
3.350821217248098
albedo
0.27
rotation period
8.9553
time of periapsis
2460425.030274038
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