NASA probe set for serendipitous flyby of main-belt asteroid
NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) probe will fly within 750 miles of the large carbon-rich asteroid 253 Mathilde this morning, using its multispectral imager to snap more than 500 images of the mysterious body as it zips by at 22,000 miles per hour. The 25-minute encounter will be the...
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