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Within Vinony's link graph, (33036) 1997 ST10 connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 33001–34000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1997, Background asteroids and Discoveries by SCAP.

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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
1283.859421399315
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time of discovery or invention
1997-09-26
site of astronomical discovery
Xinglong Station
provisional designation
1999 FZ28
albedo
0.224
orbital eccentricity
0.1510744124446259
orbital inclination
6.649719449723767
periapsis
1.962527062788786
apoapsis
2.661027914368204
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.311777488578495
mean anomaly
11.95865341839028
longitude of ascending node
32.51102285740952
argument of periapsis
354.1262342226442
absolute magnitude
14.69
time of periapsis
2460957.852139282
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