Joseph Orlando

Chapter 59 - NASA's NEAR Shoemaker Mission to Eros (Patreon)

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2025-02-28 18:00:10

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Learn about NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft, which achieved the first-ever orbit and landing on an asteroid, providing unprecedented insights into Eros's composition and structure.

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433 Eros - Wikipedia

433 Eros is a stony asteroid of the Amor group, and the first discovered, and second-largest near-Earth object. It has an elongated shape and a volume-equivalent diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers (10.4 miles). Visited by the NEAR Shoemaker space probe in 1998, it became the first asteroid ever studied from its own orbit.