NEAR achieves orbit with asteroid Eros
NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous probe achieved orbit yesterday around a 21-mile-long chunk of space debris known as 433 Eros, the first time a spacecraft has gone into orbit around an asteroid. Built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the spacecraft slowed into the...
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