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Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Q143310, and connects out to asteroid belt, Minor Planet Center and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1942, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.
Vinony links it to 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Picture of the Day · NASA
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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Key facts
- Discovered by
- K. Reinmuth
- Discovery site
- Heidelberg Obs.
- Discovery date
- 11 September 1942
- Named after
- Hans Kienle , (German astrophysicist)
- Alternative designations
- 1942 RF · 1951 YY
- Minor planet category
- main-belt · ( middle ) , background
- Observation arc
- 75.76 yr (27,671 d)
- Aphelion
- 3.4829 AU
- Perihelion
- 1.8201 AU
- Semi major axis
- 2.6515 AU
- Orbital period sidereal
- 4.32 yr (1,577 d)
- Mean anomaly
- 268.08 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 13 41.88 / day
- Inclination
- 4.5585°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 158.71°
- Argument of perihelion
- 206.14°
- Mean diameter
- 6.909 ± 0.198 km , 7.349 ± 0.144 km
- Synodic rotation period
- 29.25 h
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 7.349
- Orbital period
- 1575.948022941023
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- provisional designation
- 1951 YY
- time of discovery or invention
- 1942-09-11
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.3138573786351957
- absolute magnitude
- 13.16
- orbital inclination
- 4.56370659835766
- periapsis
- 1.818486324076425
- apoapsis
- 3.482121064105581
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.650303694091003
- mean anomaly
- 95.83898426518464
- longitude of ascending node
- 158.5624314249648
- argument of periapsis
- 206.4530428688983
- albedo
- 0.203
- rotation period
- 29.25
- time of periapsis
- 2460580.9520617407
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Encyclopedic overview
1759 Kienle, provisional designation 1942 RF, is a stony background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 11 September 1942, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. The S-type asteroid has a longer-than average rotation period of 29.3 hours. It was named for German astrophysicist Hans Kienle.
Orbit and classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q143310” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.