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Vinony's link graph records 7 inbound references to 1827 Atkinson, and connects out to asteroid spectral type, asteroid belt and Minor Planet Center.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1962, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Indiana University (Indiana Asteroid Program).
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.
via NASA APOD
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- asteroid
- Named after
- Robert d'Escourt Atkinson
- Followed by
- 1828 Kashirina
- Follows
- 1826 Miller
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 8.855
- Orbital period
- 1627.519216821243
Show 18 more facts
- discoverer or inventor
- Indiana Asteroid Program
- site of astronomical discovery
- Goethe Link Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1973 EQ
- time of discovery or invention
- 1962-09-07
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1818235955479827
- absolute magnitude
- 12.33
- orbital inclination
- 4.520568534301177
- periapsis
- 2.215467666722451
- apoapsis
- 3.200155797037262
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.707811731879857
- mean anomaly
- 346.1849422762746
- longitude of ascending node
- 220.4520946047807
- argument of periapsis
- 240.2383225669609
- albedo
- 0.249
- rotation period
- 3.757
- asteroid spectral type
- D-type asteroid
- time of periapsis
- 2461062.956310908
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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