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Also known as 2001 KE76

Trans-Neptunian object

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Within Vinony's link graph, (88267) 2001 KE76 connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 88001–89000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 2001, Cold classical Kuiper belt objects and Discoveries by Marc Buie.

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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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Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
trans-Neptunian object
Orbital period
102203.2041321641
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time of discovery or invention
2001-05-22
discoverer or inventor
Marc Buie
site of astronomical discovery
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
provisional designation
2001 KE76
orbital eccentricity
0.0271957921711645
absolute magnitude
6.68
mean anomaly
126.3440903255642
argument of periapsis
27.05488657715031
longitude of ascending node
113.1856144971559
orbital inclination
0.4955592944930638
semi-major axis of an orbit
42.78032271421548
periapsis
41.61687794866432
apoapsis
43.94376747976663
time of periapsis
2425131.6920710104
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