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Within Vinony's link graph, (213727) 2002 VF92 connects to HTML element, JPL Small-Body Database and list of minor planets: 213001–214000.

It is catalogued under topics including Agnia asteroids, Astronomical objects discovered in 2002 and Discoveries by James Whitney Young.

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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
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Orbital period
1667.027103749497
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time of discovery or invention
2002-11-13
discoverer or inventor
James Whitney Young
provisional designation
2002 VF92
site of astronomical discovery
Table Mountain Observatory
absolute magnitude
16.51
orbital eccentricity
0.06141353246246171
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.751457587416144
periapsis
2.582480857552276
apoapsis
2.920434317280011
orbital inclination
3.397905806008037
longitude of ascending node
207.5604744421074
argument of periapsis
242.3480780295773
mean anomaly
333.0515788851544
time of periapsis
2461125.288190005
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