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Within Vinony's link graph, 2006 RH120 is referenced by 32 other articles, and connects out to apsis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Apollo asteroid.
It is catalogued under topics including Apollo asteroids, Astronomical objects discovered in 2006 and Claimed moons of Earth.
Its subject is documented across 20 Wikipedia language editions.
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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
- Orbital period
- 383.6335488741627
- Image
- 2006-RH120-orbit.jpg
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- orbital inclination
- 0.5943529026338883
- time of discovery or invention
- 2006-09-14
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.02450859381694827
- mean anomaly
- 46.04052050123223
- argument of periapsis
- 10.06413552934039
- longitude of ascending node
- 51.21774770716505
- provisional designation
- 2006 RH120
- absolute magnitude
- 29.5
- Commons category
- 2006 RH120
- rotation period
- 0.04583
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 1.033265911131839
- periapsis
- 1.00794201661101
- apoapsis
- 1.058589805652668
- time of periapsis
- 2460951.4369770223
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