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Within Vinony's link graph, (26813) 1985 RN3 connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 26001–27000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1985, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Henri Debehogne.

Its subject is documented across 6 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
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
2.608
Orbital period
1175.397316601257
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time of discovery or invention
1985-09-07
discoverer or inventor
Henri Debehogne
site of astronomical discovery
La Silla Observatory
provisional designation
1998 ST115
albedo
0.260
orbital eccentricity
0.1592426014323449
orbital inclination
4.628000095192115
periapsis
1.832574094774923
apoapsis
2.526766894425916
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.179670494600419
mean anomaly
183.0987821040891
longitude of ascending node
353.3931480033424
argument of periapsis
342.8366584197979
absolute magnitude
15.19
time of periapsis
2461578.0811578287
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