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21495 Feaga

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Also known as Feaga

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 21495 Feaga connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 21001–22000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1998, Background asteroids and Discoveries by LONEOS.

Vinony links it to 11 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

Instance of
asteroid
Followed by
21496 Lijianyang
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
3.588
Orbital period
1248.56300219804
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site of astronomical discovery
Anderson Mesa Station
provisional designation
1998 JP2
time of discovery or invention
1998-05-01
orbital eccentricity
0.1691757924262608
absolute magnitude
14.67
argument of periapsis
215.56908363407
orbital inclination
8.877270370216332
periapsis
1.885314604802773
apoapsis
2.653105406594026
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.2692100056984
mean anomaly
316.5243541494773
longitude of ascending node
92.99811495377674
albedo
0.261
time of periapsis
2461151.283563627
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