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Within Vinony's link graph, 73955 Asaka connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 73001–74000 and JPL Small-Body Database.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1997, Background asteroids and Discoveries by the Saji Observatory.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Picture of the Day · NASA
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
- (73956) 1997 VQ6
- Follows
- (73954) 1997 UR20
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 6.645
- Orbital period
- 2027.243053473554
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1997-10-22
- site of astronomical discovery
- Saji Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1999 CQ84
- discoverer or inventor
- Saji Observatory
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1600634678101358
- absolute magnitude
- 14.63
- mean anomaly
- 296.7925818265166
- argument of periapsis
- 110.1782137020406
- orbital inclination
- 12.50698527447026
- albedo
- 0.084
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.134764568401607
- periapsis
- 2.633003280814902
- apoapsis
- 3.636525855988312
- longitude of ascending node
- 9.682930834249886
- time of periapsis
- 2461356.435553945
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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