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Within Vinony's link graph, 2011 UN63 is referenced by 19 other articles, and connects out to Mars trojan, Mars-crossing asteroid and (816688) 2011 SC191.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 2009, Astronomical objects discovered in 2011 and JPL Small-Body Database ID different from Wikidata.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Picture of the Day · NASA
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
- 687.0072805907615
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- orbital inclination
- 20.36230267705172
- time of discovery or invention
- 2011-10-21
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.0646902704326405
- absolute magnitude
- 19.79
- provisional designation
- 2009 SA170
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 1.523732070708761
- periapsis
- 1.425161430987724
- apoapsis
- 1.622302710429798
- longitude of ascending node
- 223.5146330335411
- argument of periapsis
- 165.3257665118736
- mean anomaly
- 187.664212624633
- time of periapsis
- 2461329.37761287
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