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Vinony's link graph records 9 inbound references to Q156824, and connects out to asteroid family, asteroid belt and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1912, Background asteroids and Discoveries by Johann Palisa.
Vinony links it to 37 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
- J. Palisa
- Discovery site
- Vienna Obs.
- Discovery date
- 11 October 1912
- Named after
- Anna Benda , (discoverer's wife)
- Alternative designations
- A912 TF · 1912 PH
- Minor planet category
- main-belt · ( outer ) background
- Observation arc
- 106.17 yr (38,778 d)
- Aphelion
- 3.4628 AU
- Perihelion
- 2.8333 AU
- Semi major axis
- 3.1481 AU
- Orbital period sidereal
- 5.59 yr (2,040 d)
- Mean anomaly
- 51.852 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 10 35.4 / day
- Inclination
- 5.8048°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 3.1349°
- Argument of perihelion
- 66.244°
- Mean diameter
- 65.917 ± 0.746 km 70.82 ± 2.9 km 73.28 ± 1.57 km
- Synodic rotation period
- 7.110 ± 0.003 h
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 67.318
- Orbital period
- 2040.848542621882
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- provisional designation
- A912 TF
- time of discovery or invention
- 1912-10-11
- albedo
- 0.051
- rotation period
- 7.11
- absolute magnitude
- 9.95
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1025851813548742
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.148774544706011
- periapsis
- 2.825756936991734
- apoapsis
- 3.471792152420289
- orbital inclination
- 5.802077180246471
- longitude of ascending node
- 2.955348018945113
- argument of periapsis
- 65.08441969563157
- mean anomaly
- 46.2797706332364
- time of periapsis
- 2460738.1388820843
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Encyclopedic overview
734 Benda (prov. designation: A912 TF or 1912 PH) is a large background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 70 kilometers (43 miles) in diameter. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at the Vienna Observatory on 11 October 1912. For its size, the dark X-type asteroid has a relatively short rotation period of 7.1 hours. It was named after the discoverer's wife, Anna Benda.
Orbit and classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q156824” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.