Jun 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jhatd..19...95c&link_type=abstract
Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Dig., Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 95 - 106
Physics
Minor Planets: Space Missions
Scientific paper
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission will be the first to orbit an asteroid and will make the first comprehensive scientific measurements of an asteroid's surface composition, geology, physical properties, and internal structure. NEAR was launched successfully on 17 Feb 1996. It made the first reconnaissance of a C-type asteroid during its flyby of the main-belt asteroid 253 Mathilde in June 1997 and will orbit the unusually large near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros for about a year at a minimum orbit radius of about 35 km from the center of the asteroid. NEAR will obtain new information on the nature and evolution of asteroids, improve the understanding of planetary formation processes in the early solar system, and clarify the relationship between asteroids and meteorites.
Cheng Andrew F.
Farquhar Robert W.
Santo Andrew G.
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