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28037 Williammonts

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Within Vinony's link graph, 28037 Williammonts connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 28001–29000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

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

Its subject is documented across 7 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
4.805
Orbital period
1283.004455448483
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time of discovery or invention
1998-03-20
provisional designation
1998 FS33
orbital eccentricity
0.1155168245064901
absolute magnitude
15.61
orbital inclination
1.060693906580375
periapsis
2.043820423625343
apoapsis
2.577681669922032
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.310751046773687
mean anomaly
15.75893324173555
longitude of ascending node
118.6903163023307
argument of periapsis
347.055561463747
albedo
0.053
time of periapsis
2460944.3367178827
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