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9824 Marylea

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Also known as Marylea

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 9824 Marylea connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 9001–10000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1973, Discoveries by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Discoveries by Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld.

Vinony links it to 21 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
Followed by
9825 Oetken
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
5.478
Orbital period
1779.531305390406
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discoverer or inventor
Tom Gehrels
site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory
provisional designation
3033 T-2
time of discovery or invention
1973-09-30
orbital eccentricity
0.06654638301414019
absolute magnitude
13.7
orbital inclination
2.993702222580091
periapsis
2.682651225791646
apoapsis
3.065146365810131
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.873898795800888
mean anomaly
274.5887731794451
longitude of ascending node
74.93830257267199
argument of periapsis
259.4486284077317
albedo
0.257
time of periapsis
2461422.699866553
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