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4278 Harvey

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Also known as Harvey

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 4278 Harvey connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 4001–5000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1982, Baptistina asteroids and Discoveries by Edward L. G. Bowell.

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
4279 De Gasparis
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Orbital period
1246.510831775553
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discoverer or inventor
Edward L. G. Bowell
site of astronomical discovery
Lowell Observatory
provisional designation
1987 BU3
time of discovery or invention
1982-09-22
orbital eccentricity
0.1770652576547654
orbital inclination
5.476914926236518
periapsis
1.865364972939295
apoapsis
2.66808069888469
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.266722835911993
mean anomaly
214.5213153260521
longitude of ascending node
146.3854219307544
argument of periapsis
235.2516546314206
absolute magnitude
14.03
rotation period
9.647
time of periapsis
2461504.224322885
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