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6867 Kuwano

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Also known as Kuwano

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 6867 Kuwano connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 6001–7000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1992, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Kazuro Watanabe.

Its subject is documented across 19 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

6867 Kuwano (1992 FP1)

Orbit class
Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter
6.710 km
Albedo
0.271
Rotation period
7.367 h
Absolute magnitude
13.200 H
Earth MOID
0.933 AU

via NASA/JPL Small-Body Database

Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Followed by
6868 Seiyauyeda
Follows
6866 Kukai
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
6.71
Orbital period
1519.578495708253
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discoverer or inventor
Kazurō Watanabe
provisional designation
1992 FP1
time of discovery or invention
1992-03-28
site of astronomical discovery
Kitami Observatory
orbital eccentricity
0.2629936069675127
absolute magnitude
13.19
orbital inclination
11.83347018435342
periapsis
1.906430876350166
apoapsis
3.267013735184243
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.586722305767204
mean anomaly
347.4067967433926
longitude of ascending node
178.8421035979098
argument of periapsis
79.53923217125195
albedo
0.271
rotation period
7.367
time of periapsis
2461053.656557947
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