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Vinony's link graph records 8 inbound references to 529 Preziosa, and connects out to Germany, Sun and day.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1904, Discoveries by Max Wolf and Eos asteroids.
Vinony links it to 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Picture of the Day · NASA
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
- Max Wolf
- Discovery site
- Heidelberg
- Discovery date
- 20 March 1904
- Pronunciation
- Spanish: [ pɾeˈθjosa ] , Italian: [ pretˈtsjoːza ]
- Alternative designations
- 1904 NT
- Observation arc
- 113.30 yr (41382 d)
- Aphelion
- 3.3078 AU (494.84 Gm )
- Perihelion
- 2.7246 AU (407.59 Gm)
- Semi major axis
- 3.0162 AU (451.22 Gm)
- Orbital period sidereal
- 5.24 yr (1913.3 d )
- Mean anomaly
- 298.796 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 11 17.376 / day
- Inclination
- 11.024°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 65.210°
- Argument of perihelion
- 333.658°
- Mean radius
- 16.005 ± 0.75 km
- Synodic rotation period
- 27 h (1.1 d )
- Geometric albedo
- 0.1632 ± 0.017
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- asteroid
- Part of
- Eos family
- Followed by
- 530 Turandot
- Follows
- 528 Rezia
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 32.01
- Orbital period
- 1915.35776433991
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- discoverer or inventor
- Max Wolf
- site of astronomical discovery
- Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
- provisional designation
- A902 YC
- time of discovery or invention
- 1904-03-20
- orbital inclination
- 11.01675377899797
- albedo
- 0.1632
- rotation period
- 25.943
- asteroid spectral type
- S-type asteroid
- absolute magnitude
- 9.93
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.09240382565853283
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.018336482928119
- periapsis
- 2.739430644780839
- apoapsis
- 3.297242321075398
- longitude of ascending node
- 64.98723923413958
- argument of periapsis
- 332.3226871116012
- mean anomaly
- 219.8001923520796
- time of periapsis
- 2461746.424417048
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
529 Preziosa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on 20 March 1904 from Heidelberg.
This is a member of the dynamic Eos family of asteroids that were probably formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “529 Preziosa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.