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Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Q1048183, and connects out to list of minor planets: 2001–3000, asteroid belt and Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1932, Discoveries by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth and Flora asteroids.
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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
- K. Reinmuth
- Discovery site
- Heidelberg Obs.
- Discovery date
- 29 January 1932
- Named after
- Cordie Robinson
- Alternative designations
- 1932 BG · 1936 KF, 1976 GS 6 · 1982 BG 2
- Minor planet category
- main-belt
- Observation arc
- 84.57 yr (30,890 days)
- Aphelion
- 2.5826 AU
- Perihelion
- 1.8949 AU
- Semi major axis
- 2.2388 AU
- Orbital period sidereal
- 3.35 yr (1,224 days)
- Mean anomaly
- 84.621 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 17 39.12 / day
- Inclination
- 6.8175°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 116.39°
- Argument of perihelion
- 154.85°
- Dimensions
- 6.657 ± 0.183 km
- Synodic rotation period
- 80.0 h (3.33 d )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 6.657
- Orbital period
- 1223.570152211747
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- provisional designation
- 1982 BG2
- time of discovery or invention
- 1932-01-29
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.153459868025914
- absolute magnitude
- 13.18
- orbital inclination
- 6.824368392042174
- periapsis
- 1.895255867373147
- apoapsis
- 2.582395683424598
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.238825775398872
- mean anomaly
- 246.8005221033479
- longitude of ascending node
- 116.3246068696715
- argument of periapsis
- 155.3610725359642
- albedo
- 0.262
- rotation period
- 80.0
- time of periapsis
- 2461385.243062223
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Encyclopedic overview
2942 Cordie, provisional designation 1932 BG, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 29 January 1932, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany.
The asteroid has a long rotation period of roughly 80 hours. It was named after of Cordie Robinson, planetary geologist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1048183” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.