NEAR performs 'flawlessly' at Mathilde.
NASA'S NEAR EARTH Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft performed "flawlessly" as it whizzed past the asteroid 253 Mathilde Friday morning, according to a spokesman for Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory, which built the probe. Based on the amount of data in NEAR's memory, controllers...
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