Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic...
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shoemaker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A shoemaker is a person making shoes. Shoemaker may also refer to: Shoemaker (surname) NEAR Shoemaker,...
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Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and...
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433 Eros (redirect from Shoemaker crater (433 Eros))
Shoemaker Eros Earth Mathilde Sun . Animation of NEAR Shoemaker's trajectory around 433 Eros from 1 April 2000 to 12 February 2001. NEAR Shoemaker ·...
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Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the...
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amplification reaction (NEAR), a method of DNA amplification NEAR Protocol, a layer-1 blockchain NEAR Shoemaker, a spacecraft that studied the near-Earth asteroid...
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ten years worthwhile. The first near-Earth asteroid to be visited by a spacecraft was 433 Eros when NASA's NEAR Shoemaker probe orbited it from February...
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only 4% of the light that falls on it. Mathilde was visited by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft during June 1997, on its way to asteroid 433 Eros. During...
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Asteroid (section Near-Earth asteroids)
by NASA and JAXA, with plans for other missions in progress. NASA's NEAR Shoemaker studied Eros, and Dawn observed Vesta and Ceres. JAXA's missions Hayabusa...
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regoliths developed by meteoroid impact. The final images taken by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft of the surface of Eros are the best images of the regolith...
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