Imaging of asteroid 433 Eros during NEAR's flyby reconnaissance.

Details Imaging of asteroid 433 Eros during NEAR's flyby reconnaissance. Imaging of asteroid 433 Eros during NEAR's flyby reconnaissance.

Jul 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999sci...285..562v&link_type=abstract

Science, Vol. 285, No. 5427, p. 562 - 564

Physics

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Minor Planets: Images, Minor Planets: Figures, Minor Planets: Craters, Minor Planets: Densities

Scientific paper

During the 23 Dec 1998 flyby of asteroid 433 Eros, the NEAR spacecraft obtained 222 images of Eros, as well as supporting spectral observations. The images cover slightly more than two-thirds of Eros and reveal an elongated, cratered body with a linear feature extending for at least 20 km. The observations show that Eros has dimensions of 33×13×13 km. The volume, combined with the mass determined by the NEAR radio science experiment, leads to a density of 2.5±0.8 g cm-3. This relatively high density, and the presence of an extensive linear feature, suggests that Eros may be a structurally coherent body.

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