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Within Vinony's link graph, 1043 Beate is referenced by 7 other articles, and connects out to asteroid spectral type, asteroid belt and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1925, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.
Its subject is documented across 40 Wikipedia language editions.
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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
- 22 April 1925
- Pronunciation
- German: [ beːˈʔaːtə ]
- Named after
- unknown
- Alternative designations
- 1925 HB
- Minor planet category
- main-belt · ( outer )
- Observation arc
- 92.20 yr (33,677 days)
- Aphelion
- 3.2214 AU
- Perihelion
- 2.9717 AU
- Semi major axis
- 3.0966 AU
- Orbital period sidereal
- 5.45 yr (1,990 days)
- Mean anomaly
- 255.00 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 10 51.24 / day
- Inclination
- 8.9257°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 159.31°
- Argument of perihelion
- 154.71°
- Dimensions
- 31.60 ± 1.3 km , 31.85 km (derived) , 31.986 ± 0.075 km , 33.97 ± 0.43 km , 34.08 ± 1.11 km , 40.952 ± 0.967 km
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- asteroid
- Followed by
- 1044 Teutonia
- Follows
- 1042 Amazone
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 31.986
- Orbital period
- 1985.739507773733
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- discoverer or inventor
- Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
- site of astronomical discovery
- Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1925 HB
- time of discovery or invention
- 1925-04-22
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.03728509781382035
- orbital inclination
- 8.923600767738769
- periapsis
- 2.976552823746894
- apoapsis
- 3.207111347208793
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.091832085477843
- mean anomaly
- 74.72706747113448
- longitude of ascending node
- 159.1589405672599
- argument of periapsis
- 158.4478727545196
- absolute magnitude
- 9.82
- albedo
- 0.209
- rotation period
- 44.3
- asteroid spectral type
- S-type asteroid
- time of periapsis
- 2460588.309749507
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
1043 Beate, provisional designation 1925 HB, is a stony asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 32 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory on 22 April 1925. Any reference of its name to a person is unknown.
Orbit and classification
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