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70737 Stenflo

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Also known as Stenflo

asteroid

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Within Vinony's link graph, 70737 Stenflo connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 70001–71000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1999, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Stefano Sposetti.

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Picture of the Day · NASA

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
1571.615958619457
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discoverer or inventor
Stefano Sposetti
time of discovery or invention
1999-11-08
site of astronomical discovery
Osservatorio Astronomico di Gnosca
provisional designation
1999 VA11
orbital eccentricity
0.2217361098374774
absolute magnitude
15.54
mean anomaly
24.83253839774461
argument of periapsis
137.5986764254019
longitude of ascending node
250.7371784165022
orbital inclination
4.758047151108595
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.645444586039527
periapsis
2.058853994740506
apoapsis
3.232035177338548
time of periapsis
2460892.0910732253
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