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(5767) Moldun

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Also known as Moldun

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, (5767) Moldun connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 5001–6000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1986, Discoveries by Edward L. G. Bowell and Flora asteroids.

Its subject is documented across 23 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.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Named after
Meudon
Followed by
5768 Pittich
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
4.103
Orbital period
1250.985638217506
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discoverer or inventor
Edward L. G. Bowell
site of astronomical discovery
Lowell Observatory
provisional designation
1989 LC
time of discovery or invention
1986-09-06
orbital eccentricity
0.1863427196979581
mean anomaly
206.4159731065296
longitude of ascending node
187.7859028934839
argument of periapsis
105.7059302651329
absolute magnitude
14.32
orbital inclination
4.456612422147777
periapsis
1.848746845714023
apoapsis
2.695541985641951
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.272144415677987
albedo
0.264
rotation period
25.648
time of periapsis
2461534.198366398
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