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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
- Named after
- Jaromír Nohavica
- Followed by
- 6540 Stepling
- Follows
- 6538 Muraviov
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 8.641
- Orbital period
- 1584.054832607895
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- discoverer or inventor
- Zdeňka Vávrová
- site of astronomical discovery
- Kleť Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1991 UT
- time of discovery or invention
- 1982-08-19
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2014746478623705
- absolute magnitude
- 14.23
- orbital inclination
- 2.267556571685517
- periapsis
- 2.123586218579965
- apoapsis
- 3.195183468306457
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.659384843443211
- mean anomaly
- 357.3966428557806
- longitude of ascending node
- 300.5945413264779
- argument of periapsis
- 24.85930075363679
- albedo
- 0.078
- rotation period
- 5.8
- time of periapsis
- 2461011.955167959
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Article · Deutsch
(6539) Nohavica ist ein Asteroid des mittleren Hauptgürtels, der am 19. August 1982 von der tschechischen Astronomin Zdeňka Vávrová am Kleť-Observatorium (IAU-Code 046) bei Český Krumlov entdeckt wurde. Der Asteroid wurde am 8. Dezember 1998 nach dem tschechischen Liedermacher Jaromír Nohavica (* 1953) benannt, der seit 1982 selbst mit seinen Liedern aufzutritt und so zu einem der populärsten Interpreten der tschechischen Musikszene wurde.
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