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26586 Harshaw

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Also known as Harshaw

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 26586 Harshaw connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 26001–27000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 2000, Discoveries by Richard E. Hill and Gefion asteroids.

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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
Diameter
5.792
Orbital period
1688.875421181869
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time of discovery or invention
2000-03-10
provisional designation
2000 EF116
discoverer or inventor
Catalina Sky Survey
orbital eccentricity
0.1018335872381866
orbital inclination
10.38383842432301
periapsis
2.492812436822863
apoapsis
3.058079694976185
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.775446065899524
mean anomaly
101.5129327146654
longitude of ascending node
72.1207852556705
argument of periapsis
186.2685354316898
absolute magnitude
13.42
albedo
0.252
site of astronomical discovery
Catalina Station
time of periapsis
2460524.270286128
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