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Within Vinony's link graph, (61469) 2000 QJ35 connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 61001–62000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 2000, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Takeshi Urata.

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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.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
5.685
Orbital period
1298.359949802987
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time of discovery or invention
2000-08-23
discoverer or inventor
Takeshi Urata
site of astronomical discovery
Nachi-Katsuura Observatory
provisional designation
2000 QJ35
albedo
0.066
rotation period
40.4448
absolute magnitude
15.27
orbital eccentricity
0.149945857843947
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.329151772708872
periapsis
1.979905112101291
apoapsis
2.678398433316454
orbital inclination
3.110530643918726
longitude of ascending node
265.8759163347293
argument of periapsis
9.409712180438694
mean anomaly
87.80751528337413
time of periapsis
2460683.817330179
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