Sentences with phrase «asteroid eros»

And a special close - but - no - cigar award goes to the NEAR Shoemaker probe, which snapped this photo from about 400 feet above the surface of the near - Earth asteroid Eros:

Later he served as an investigator on the Magellan mission to Venus, the NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) spacecraft encounter with the asteroid Eros, and the Mars Odyssey mission.

So astronomers were elated when they realized that the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous probe, on its way to a 1999 encounter with the asteroid Eros, would also get a passing glance at a 43 - mile - long asteroid called Mathilde.

Not exact matches

NEAR was scheduled to begin orbiting Eros in late January for a 9 - month study of the asteroid's shape and composition.

Two NEAs have been visited by spacecraft: 433 Eros, by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous probe, and 25143 Itokawa, by the JAXA Hayabusa mission.

The real fun starts in January 1999, when near begins a year in orbit around 25 - mile - long Eros, culminating with a crash landing on that asteroid's surface.

Asteroids like Eros offer astronomers clues to the formation of the solar system.

NEAR (which stands for Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) sent back 160,000 images of Eros's crater - pocked surface, showing us huge boulders as high as 16 - story buildings that dot the asteroid's Asteroid Rendezvous) sent back 160,000 images of Eros's crater - pocked surface, showing us huge boulders as high as 16 - story buildings that dot the asteroid's asteroid's surface.

Two months earlier, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission had failed to make its date with asteroid 4Asteroid Rendezvous mission had failed to make its date with asteroid 4asteroid 433 Eros.

In 1999, the NEAR spacecraft showed that a single asteroid, Eros, contains more gold than has ever been mined on Earth.

Dr. Chapman was also a member of the MSI / NIS (imaging / spectrometer) Team of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR Shoemaker) mission to Eros, which was launched in February 1996, went into orbit around Eros on Valentine's Day, 2000, and successfully landed on the surface of Eros on Feb. 12, 2001.

Dr. Chapman has been the Principal Investigator of many NASA and NSF grants and has been P.I. of research concerning the Late Heavy Bombardment of the Moon (and inner solar system), astronomical observations of very young asteroid families, analysis of NEAR Shoemaker images of Eros, studies of secondary cratering on Mars, and investigations of the cratering records of the Galilean satellites.

The landing of the NEAR - Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid 433 Eros J. Veverka, B. Farquhar, M. Robinson, P. Thomas, S. Murchie, A. Harch, P. G. Antreasian, S. R. Chesley, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen Jr., B. G. Williams, D. Yeomans, D. Dunham, G. Heyler, M. Holdridge, R. L. Nelson, K. E. Whittenburg, J. C. Ray, B. Carcich, A. Cheng, C. Chapman, J. F. Bell III, M. Bell, B. Bussey, B. Clark, D. Domingue, M. J. Gaffey, E. Hawkins, N. Izenberg, J. Joseph, R. Kirk, P. Lucey, M. Malin, L. McFadden, W. J. Merline, C. Peterson, L. Prockter, J. Warren, and D. Wellnitz Nature 413, 390 — 393, doi: 10.1038 / 35096507, 27 September 2001.

Imaging of asteroid 433 Eros during NEAR's flyby reconnaissance J. Veverka, P. C. Thomas, J. F. Bell III, M. Bell, B. Carcich, B. Clark, A. Harch, J. Joseph, P. Martin, M. Robinson, S. Murchie, N. Izenberg, E. Hawkins, J. Warren, R. Farquhar, A. Cheng, D. Dunham, C. Chapman, W. J. Merline, L. McFadden, D. Wellnitz, M. Malin, W. M. Owen Jr., J. K. Miller, B. G. Williams, and D. K. Yeomans Science 285, 562 — 564, doi: 10.1126 / science.285.5427.562, 23 July 1999.

That left the craft in danger of never reaching the asteroid it was supposed to orbit (named 433 Eros).

Eros, a small asteroid (minor planet) discovered in 1898.

Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) President, Michael Malin, was a member of NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission which explored the asteroid, 433 Eros, in detail in 2000 and earAsteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission which explored the asteroid, 433 Eros, in detail in 2000 and earasteroid, 433 Eros, in detail in 2000 and early 2001.

On the Rocinante, Holden (Steven Strait) and Miller (Thomas Jane) recover from the radiation poisoning they got on Eros and decide to store the dangerous Protomolecule in an abandoned asteroid mine for future study.