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Also known as Harwood

asteroid

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It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1960, Discoveries by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Discoveries by Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld.

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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

Diameter
3.884
Orbital period
1219.968027097091
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provisional designation
2642 P-L
time of discovery or invention
1960-09-24
orbital eccentricity
0.1301720306788825
absolute magnitude
14.21
orbital inclination
6.742472039029444
periapsis
1.943569385653222
apoapsis
2.525289869746755
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.234429627699988
mean anomaly
304.7242082512814
longitude of ascending node
181.3027135919073
argument of periapsis
54.60304261421349
albedo
0.323
time of periapsis
2461187.8186072386
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