Sentences with phrase «on the asteroid eros»

Not exact matches

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 MAsteroid 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 Masteroid Eros, would also get a passing glance at a 43 - mile - long asteroid called Masteroid called Mathilde.

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.

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 Asteroid Rendezvous) spacecraft encounter with the asteroid Eros, and the Mars Odyssey asteroid Eros, and the Mars Odyssey mission.

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.

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 studOn 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 studon Eros and decide to store the dangerous Protomolecule in an abandoned asteroid mine for future study.