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44192 Paulguttman

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Also known as Paulguttman

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 44192 Paulguttman connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 44001–45000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1998, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Carl W. Hergenrother.

Its subject is documented across 5 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
2.836
Orbital period
1477.198543202883
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discoverer or inventor
Carl W. Hergenrother
orbital eccentricity
0.1792926953273798
absolute magnitude
14.83
mean anomaly
275.5411450537186
argument of periapsis
105.2429853483325
longitude of ascending node
136.7336855419674
orbital inclination
14.03341342971827
time of discovery or invention
1998-06-18
provisional designation
1998 ME2
albedo
0.503
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.538401383963806
periapsis
2.083284558010184
apoapsis
2.993518209917428
time of periapsis
2461347.06249302
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