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(160147) 2001 KN76

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Also known as 2001 KN76

Trans-Neptunian object

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Within Vinony's link graph, (160147) 2001 KN76 connects to HTML element, JPL Small-Body Database and list of minor planets: 160001–161000.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 2001, Cold classical Kuiper belt objects and Discoveries by Marc Buie.

Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.

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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

Parent body
Sun
Orbital period
104781.2413131859
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time of discovery or invention
2001-05-22
discoverer or inventor
Marc Buie
site of astronomical discovery
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
provisional designation
2001 KN76
orbital eccentricity
0.08424583277079313
absolute magnitude
6.38
mean anomaly
357.4931578991391
argument of periapsis
285.8612200318451
orbital inclination
2.648037094458063
longitude of ascending node
326.7205146279409
semi-major axis of an orbit
43.49674329313498
periapsis
39.83232393158741
apoapsis
47.16116265468254
time of periapsis
2461730.138964179
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