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84075 Peterpatricia

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Also known as Peterpatricia

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 84075 Peterpatricia connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 84001–85000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 2002, Discoveries by Andrew Lowe and Karin asteroids.

Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.

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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.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Orbital period
1764.711429180896
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discoverer or inventor
Andrew Lowe
site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory
provisional designation
2002 PL165
time of discovery or invention
2002-08-08
orbital eccentricity
0.05889088195445782
absolute magnitude
16.02
mean anomaly
303.0300738304634
argument of periapsis
348.7307004591798
longitude of ascending node
329.9604108982268
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.857920745864736
periapsis
2.689615272584819
apoapsis
3.026226219144652
orbital inclination
1.228509484354276
time of periapsis
2461279.7652217527
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