NEAR Shoemaker

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker, renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year. It was the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid and land on it successfully. In February 2000, the mission closed in on the asteroid and orbited it. On February 12, 2001, Shoemaker touched down on the asteroid and was terminated just over two weeks later.

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1996 Website,  Wikimedia, Wikidata
NEAR, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker
space probe, Delta II, 

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Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

1996-02-17T00:00:00Z

1996-02-17T00:00:00Z

1996 NEAR Shoemaker

2001-02-28T00:00:00Z

2001-02-28T00:00:00Z

loss of signal

2000-02-14T00:00:00Z

2000-02-14T00:00:00Z

orbital activity

1996-02-17T00:00:00Z

1996-02-17T00:00:00Z

rocket launch

2001-02-12T00:00:00Z

2001-02-12T00:00:00Z

soft landing

1997-06-27T00:00:00Z

1997-06-27T00:00:00Z

planetary flyby

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Frameless

Near Eros

NEARCraft

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission

Near Shoemaker

Near Eros

NEAR Spacecraft Configuration

Artist's rendering of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft's rendezvous with the asteroid Eros.

Artist's rendering of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft's rendezvous with the asteroid Eros.

NEAR at launch preparations

Launch of NEAR on a Delta II 7925-8

• Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 75 - issue published in 1995, English, online

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Near Eros		Commons
commons	image		NEARCraft		Commons
commons	image		Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission		Commons
commons	image		Near Shoemaker		Commons
commons	image		Near Eros		Commons
commons	image		NEAR Spacecraft Configuration		Commons
commons	image		Artist's rendering of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft's rendezvous with the asteroid Eros.		Commons
commons	image		Artist's rendering of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft's rendezvous with the asteroid Eros.		Commons
commons	image		NEAR at launch preparations		Commons
commons	image		Launch of NEAR on a Delta II 7925-8		Commons