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160013 Elbrus

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160013 Elbrus

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Also known as Elbrus

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 160013 Elbrus connects to HTML element, JPL Small-Body Database and list of minor planets: 160001–161000.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1973, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Cornelis Johannes van Houten.

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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

Instance of
asteroid
Parent body
Sun
Orbital period
2139.375864862031
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discoverer or inventor
Tom Gehrels
site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory
time of discovery or invention
1973-09-29
provisional designation
1294 T-2
orbital eccentricity
0.2895186740082018
absolute magnitude
16.12
mean anomaly
18.99840273454626
argument of periapsis
149.9041872415944
longitude of ascending node
157.9322433012174
orbital inclination
0.07306167978282872
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.249319698852062
periapsis
2.308580968211683
apoapsis
4.190058429492441
time of periapsis
2460887.5979881077
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