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9281 Weryk

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Also known as (9281) 1981 EJ15, Weryk

minor planet

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Within Vinony's link graph, 9281 Weryk connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 9001–10000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1981, Discoveries by Schelte J. Bus and Minor planet object redirects (numbered).

Its subject is documented across 16 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
Named after
Robert Weryk
Followed by
9282 Lucylim
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Orbital period
1400.746671241567
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discoverer or inventor
Schelte J. Bus
site of astronomical discovery
Siding Spring Observatory
provisional designation
1979 TV1
time of discovery or invention
1981-03-01
orbital eccentricity
0.1700355385619696
absolute magnitude
14.86
orbital inclination
2.194209831255449
periapsis
2.03345053023888
apoapsis
2.866640075365221
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.450045302802051
mean anomaly
351.7651553306762
longitude of ascending node
271.9506630821091
argument of periapsis
137.3830322851748
time of periapsis
2461032.541475719
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