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Also known as Jody

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 4083 Jody connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 4001–5000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1985, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Carolyn S. Shoemaker.

Its subject is documented across 27 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
4084 Hollis
Follows
4082 Swann
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
9.643
Orbital period
1529.193043704174
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discoverer or inventor
Carolyn S. Shoemaker
site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory
provisional designation
1985 CV
time of discovery or invention
1985-02-12
orbital eccentricity
0.1921681975530429
orbital inclination
12.83577564306855
mean anomaly
339.2264718701475
longitude of ascending node
143.1413598796667
argument of periapsis
271.0286754685594
absolute magnitude
12.44
periapsis
2.09844152118241
apoapsis
3.096802129355093
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.597621825268751
albedo
0.25
rotation period
17.86
time of periapsis
2461088.7409297484
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