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4123 Tarsila

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Also known as Tarsila

asteroid

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, 4123 Tarsila connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 4001–5000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1986, Discoveries by Henri Debehogne and Koronis asteroids.

Its subject is documented across 26 Wikipedia language editions.

Picture of the Day · NASA

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.

via NASA APOD

Small body data

(4123) Tarsila

Orbit class
Main-belt
Semi-major axis
2.835 AU
Eccentricity
0.066
Inclination
2.746 °
Absolute magnitude
13.210 H

via Minor Planet Center

Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Followed by
4124 Herriot
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
6.483
Orbital period
1741.962018860496
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provisional designation
1982 UJ10
time of discovery or invention
1986-08-27
orbital eccentricity
0.06544993730184435
orbital inclination
2.746763124436897
discoverer or inventor
Henri Debehogne
site of astronomical discovery
La Silla Observatory
periapsis
2.647866432985049
apoapsis
3.018745851733756
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.833306142359402
mean anomaly
7.028866233381712
longitude of ascending node
55.12897000835146
argument of periapsis
1.587401301778817
absolute magnitude
13.21
albedo
0.291
time of periapsis
2460966.4888388496
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