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63162 Davidčapek

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Also known as Davidčapek

asteroid

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, 63162 Davidčapek connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 63001–64000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

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

Its subject is documented across 8 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

(63162) Davidcapek

Orbit class
Main-belt
Semi-major axis
3.159 AU
Eccentricity
0.157
Inclination
17.456 °
Absolute magnitude
13.930 H

via Minor Planet Center

Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Followed by
63163 Jerusalem
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
11.217
Orbital period
2050.076529999751
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time of discovery or invention
2000-12-22
discoverer or inventor
Peter Kušnirák
site of astronomical discovery
Ondřejov Observatory
provisional designation
2000 YE11
orbital eccentricity
0.1572485655772117
absolute magnitude
13.94
mean anomaly
210.3552094468048
argument of periapsis
293.6042216783799
longitude of ascending node
84.02587351705826
orbital inclination
17.45723928862115
albedo
0.046
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.158259161060021
periapsis
2.661627438262244
apoapsis
3.654890883857798
time of periapsis
2461852.675758194
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