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Within Vinony's link graph, 1346 Gotha is referenced by 9 other articles, and connects out to asteroid family, Paul Herget and asteroid belt.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1929, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.
Its subject is documented across 32 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
- 5 February 1929
- Named after
- Gotha , (German city in Thuringia )
- Alternative designations
- 1929 CY · 1931 RC 1 , 1948 PL 1 · 1952 OC
- Minor planet category
- main-belt · ( middle ) , background · Eunomia
- Observation arc
- 90.53 yr (33,065 d)
- Aphelion
- 3.0948 AU
- Perihelion
- 2.1599 AU
- Semi major axis
- 2.6274 AU
- Orbital period sidereal
- 4.26 yr (1,556 d)
- Mean anomaly
- 147.30 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 13 53.04 / day
- Inclination
- 13.849°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 166.12°
- Argument of perihelion
- 250.00°
- Mean diameter
- 13.731 ± 0.120 km , 13.747 ± 0.325 km
- Synodic rotation period
- 2.640 67 ± 0.000 02 h
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- asteroid
- Named after
- Gotha
- Followed by
- 1347 Patria
- Follows
- 1345 Potomac
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 13.731
- Orbital period
- 1555.77576484462
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- discoverer or inventor
- Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
- site of astronomical discovery
- Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1952 OC
- time of discovery or invention
- 1929-02-05
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1760639749654044
- orbital inclination
- 13.86416349681669
- periapsis
- 2.165006520585446
- apoapsis
- 3.090271692294107
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.627639106439776
- mean anomaly
- 341.5542053962976
- longitude of ascending node
- 165.9286761899927
- argument of periapsis
- 250.8083474847466
- absolute magnitude
- 11.37
- albedo
- 0.278
- rotation period
- 2.64
- time of periapsis
- 2461080.21533391
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
1346 Gotha, provisional designation 1929 CY, is a stony background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 14 kilometers (8.7 mi) in diameter. It was discovered on 5 February 1929, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. The presumed S-type asteroid has a short rotation period of 2.6 hours. It was named for the German city of Gotha, located in Thuringia.
Orbit and classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “1346 Gotha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.