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7955 Ogiwara

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Also known as Ogiwara

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 7955 Ogiwara connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 7001–8000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1993, Discoveries by Takeshi Urata and Minor planet object redirects (numbered).

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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

Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Followed by
7956 Yaji
Follows
7954 Kitao
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
5.979
Orbital period
1673.56453060559
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discoverer or inventor
Takeshi Urata
site of astronomical discovery
Nihondaira Observatory
provisional designation
1995 GL
time of discovery or invention
1993-11-18
orbital eccentricity
0.122128518191894
absolute magnitude
14.0
orbital inclination
1.568219056141634
periapsis
2.421736932181592
apoapsis
3.095555706585229
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.758646319383411
mean anomaly
285.0270854346474
longitude of ascending node
289.5815964261274
argument of periapsis
211.3163860724293
albedo
0.164
time of periapsis
2461349.033362702
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