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Within Vinony's link graph, (58577) 1997 SV connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 58001–59000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1997, Discoveries by SCAP and Minor planet object redirects (numbered).

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
Followed by
58578 Žídek
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
2.696
Orbital period
1330.152835634173
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time of discovery or invention
1997-09-16
site of astronomical discovery
Xinglong Station
provisional designation
1997 SV
albedo
0.385
absolute magnitude
14.98
orbital eccentricity
0.1201560078379356
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.367020823037897
periapsis
2.082609050472399
apoapsis
2.651432595603395
orbital inclination
7.135847764875161
longitude of ascending node
32.63569447287924
argument of periapsis
343.6946683300516
mean anomaly
280.7427250686898
time of periapsis
2461293.345247207
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