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Vinony's link graph records 11 inbound references to 916 America, and connects out to asteroid belt, Grigory Neujmin and Russia.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1915, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Grigory Neujmin.
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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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Key facts
- Discovered by
- G. N. Neujmin
- Discovery date
- 7 August 1915
- Pronunciation
- / ə ˈ m ɛr ɪ k ə /
- Named after
- Americas
- Symbol
- (astrological)
- Observation arc
- 92.21 yr (33681 days)
- Aphelion
- 2.9247 AU (437.53 Gm )
- Perihelion
- 1.8037 AU (269.83 Gm)
- Semi major axis
- 2.3642 AU (353.68 Gm)
- Orbital period sidereal
- 3.64 yr (1327.8 d )
- Mean anomaly
- 245.58 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 16 16.068 / day
- Inclination
- 11.093°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 329.79°
- Argument of perihelion
- 41.772°
- Mean radius
- 16.615 ± 0.65 km
- Synodic rotation period
- 38 h (1.6 d )
- Geometric albedo
- 0.0530 ± 0.004
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- asteroid
- Named after
- Americas
- Followed by
- 917 Lyka
- Follows
- 915 Cosette
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 33.23
- Orbital period
- 1328.701456687001
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- discoverer or inventor
- Grigory Neujmin
- site of astronomical discovery
- Simeiz Observatory
- provisional designation
- A915 PE
- time of discovery or invention
- 1915-08-07
- orbital inclination
- 11.09773903208614
- Commons category
- 916 America
- albedo
- 0.053
- rotation period
- 37.294
- absolute magnitude
- 11.54
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2369605037195326
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.365298680460045
- periapsis
- 1.804816313691087
- apoapsis
- 2.925781047229004
- longitude of ascending node
- 329.7038189599033
- argument of periapsis
- 41.79985150312022
- mean anomaly
- 87.1558862959543
- time of periapsis
- 2460678.8217969993
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
916 America is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.
It was discovered on 7 August 1915 by the Russian astronomer Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin at Simeis, Russian Empire. Originally designated 916I, it was renamed '916 America' on 24 February 1923 after the Council of Astronomers at Pulkovo Observatory decided to commemorate "the friendly relations of the astronomical observatories and astronomers". It was named after the Americas, which is why it was stated that it was named for the American continent. The name was possibly a mark of appreciation for the help given during the 1921 Russian famine by the American Relief Administration under the later President Herbert Hoover.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “916 America” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.