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EntityQ752743· pop 23

Also known as Carver

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, Q752743 connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 7001–8000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1933, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.

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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
4.454
Orbital period
1265.190538495866
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provisional designation
1985 FD1
time of discovery or invention
1933-03-24
orbital eccentricity
0.2201413525406302
absolute magnitude
14.27
orbital inclination
2.208426935611668
periapsis
1.785339846194968
apoapsis
2.793284375030926
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.289312110612947
mean anomaly
249.2490665428876
longitude of ascending node
261.6811415184857
argument of periapsis
311.7777840388324
albedo
0.245
time of periapsis
2461389.7250920543
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