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Also known as Georgemiley

Asteroid des Hauptgürtels

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Within Vinony's link graph, (6202) Georgemiley connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 6001–7000 and JPL Small-Body Database.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1971, Discoveries by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Discoveries by Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld.

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
asteroid
Followed by
6203 Lyubamoroz
Parent body
Sun
Minor-planet group
asteroid belt
Diameter
2.485
Orbital period
1294.491936106502
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discoverer or inventor
Tom Gehrels
site of astronomical discovery
Palomar Observatory
provisional designation
3332 T-1
time of discovery or invention
1971-03-26
orbital eccentricity
0.218075583162246
absolute magnitude
14.64
orbital inclination
1.558966782040947
periapsis
1.817601712555297
apoapsis
2.831445365181481
semi-major axis of an orbit
2.324523538868389
mean anomaly
281.168841548147
longitude of ascending node
285.1510610296597
argument of periapsis
119.649514596878
albedo
0.482
time of periapsis
2461283.961941472
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(6202) Georgemiley ist ein Asteroid des Hauptgürtels, der am 26. März 1971 von dem niederländischen Astronomenehepaar Cornelis Johannes van Houten und Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld entdeckt wurde. Die Entdeckung geschah im Rahmen des Palomar-Leiden-Surveys, bei dem von Tom Gehrels mit dem 120-cm-Oschin-Schmidt-Teleskop des Palomar-Observatoriums aufgenommene Feldplatten an der Universität Leiden durchmustert wurden. Der Asteroid wurde nach dem irisch-niederländischen Astronomen George K. Miley (* 1942) benannt, der Professor für Astronomie an der Universität Leiden und dort 1996 bis 2003 Direktor der Sternwarte Leiden war.

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