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It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1904, Background asteroids and C-type asteroids (Tholen).
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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
- Raymond Smith Dugan
- Discovery site
- Heidelberg
- Discovery date
- 7 May 1904
- Pronunciation
- / ˈ m ɒ n t ə ɡ juː / MON -tə-ghew
- Alternative designations
- 1904 OC
- Observation arc
- 111.95 yr (40889 d)
- Aphelion
- 2.6316 AU (393.68 Gm )
- Perihelion
- 2.5073 AU (375.09 Gm)
- Semi major axis
- 2.5694 AU (384.38 Gm)
- Orbital period sidereal
- 4.12 yr (1504.4 d )
- Mean anomaly
- 165.239 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 14 21.48 / day
- Inclination
- 6.7774°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 84.813°
- Argument of perihelion
- 64.514°
- Mean radius
- 37.245 ± 2.3 km
- Synodic rotation period
- 10.248 h , 10.2482 h (0.42701 d )
- Geometric albedo
- 0.0514 ± 0.007
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- asteroid
- Named after
- Montague
- Followed by
- 536 Merapi
- Follows
- 534 Nassovia
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 79.299
- Orbital period
- 1503.591307833354
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- discoverer or inventor
- Raymond Smith Dugan
- site of astronomical discovery
- Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
- provisional designation
- A903 BD
- time of discovery or invention
- 1904-05-07
- orbital inclination
- 6.773454202558618
- albedo
- 0.054
- rotation period
- 10.2482
- asteroid spectral type
- C-type asteroid
- absolute magnitude
- 9.58
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.02628301942120121
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.568547410390738
- periapsis
- 2.501038228919162
- apoapsis
- 2.636056591862314
- longitude of ascending node
- 84.75352623181809
- argument of periapsis
- 67.34304317143774
- mean anomaly
- 256.0516864108551
- time of periapsis
- 2461434.6549466015
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
535 Montague is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by Raymond Smith Dugan on 7 May 1904 in Heidelberg, Germany. It was named after the town Montague in Massachusetts.
Photometric observations of this asteroid give a light curve with a period of 10.248 hours.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “535 Montague” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.