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5348 Kennoguchi

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Also known as Kennoguchi

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 5348 Kennoguchi connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 5001–6000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1988, Ch-type asteroids (SMASS) and Discoveries by Takuo Kojima.

Its subject is documented across 19 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
Named after
Ken Noguchi
Followed by
5349 Paulharris
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
15.17
Orbital period
1704.813208730653
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discoverer or inventor
Takuo Kojima
provisional designation
1988 BB
time of discovery or invention
1988-01-16
orbital eccentricity
0.1716061294174138
orbital inclination
7.06871795296497
periapsis
2.313604533604303
apoapsis
3.272155129192839
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.792879831398571
mean anomaly
30.20221537356102
longitude of ascending node
301.361772925214
argument of periapsis
175.0097236211697
absolute magnitude
12.92
albedo
0.07
asteroid spectral type
C-type asteroid
time of periapsis
2460857.4746230505
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