[DOC] [TLE] NEAR Shoemaker - Wikipedia [PAR] The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous  Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), 
renamed after its ... Some scientists claim that the ultimate goal of the mission 
was to link Eros, an ... Between December 1999 and February 2001 NEAR 
Shoemaker used its .... per second (thus becoming the first spacecraft to soft-land 
on an asteroid). [DOC] [TLE] Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker ... [PAR] NEAR Shoemaker first spacecraft to orbit and then land on an asteroid (Eros, a 
near-Earth asteroid, on Feb. ... km [335 miles]) around Eros, NEAR Shoemaker 
studied the object's mass, structure, ... On Feb. 12, 2001, the spacecraft survived 
a landing on the surface of Eros, returning images of objects as small as 1 cm (
0.4... [DOC] [TLE] Missions - NEAR-Shoemaker - NASA Science [PAR] Mar 17, 2016 ... Launch Date: February 17, 1996 ... The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - 
Shoemaker (NEAR ... the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros, one of the largest of the 
near Earth ... The mission was the first-ever to orbit an asteroid and the first to ... 
to attempt to land on the asteroid, something the spacecraft had not... [DOC] [TLE] It's Not Over Yet! | Science Mission Directorate [PAR] Feb 13, 2001 ... Following one of the softest planetary landings ever, ground ... February 14, 2001 
-- One year after NASA's NEAR Shoemaker ... Left: These images were captured 
by NEAR Shoemaker as it descended to the surface of Eros on February 12, 
2001 ... and became the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid on Feb. [DOC] [TLE] Space Today Online - Solar System Asteroids - NEAR-Shoemaker ... [PAR] NEAR-Shoemaker Lands on Asteroid Eros ... It became the first spacecraft to orbit 
an asteroid in February 2000 and then the first to land on an asteroid in ... Such "
near Earth" objects contain clues about the formation of Earth and other planets. 
... On Feb. 12, 2001, NEAR-Shoemaker used a set of five de-orbit and braking... [DOC] [TLE] Spaceflight Now | NEAR | Mission Status Center [PAR] February 28, 2001 -- Follow the conclusion of NASA's NEAR Shoemaker 
exploration ... The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft's historic soft landing on asteroid 
433 Eros Feb. 12 turned out to be a mission planner's dream - providing NEAR 
team ... per second) may have been one of the slowest planetary landings in 
history. [DOC] [TLE] Near Shoemaker - Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous [PAR] NEAR Shoemaker was first spacecraft to go into orbit around an asteroid, first to 
land on it and first solar powered spacecraft to travel beyond Mars. ... Near 
Shoemaker landed on Eros on February 12, 2001. ... Theory holds that most of 
these objects broke away from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. [DOC] [TLE] Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous: Mission Summary [PAR] On February 14, 2000, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft (NEAR ... 
began the first orbital study of an asteroid, the near-Earth object 433 Eros. ... on 
February 12, 2001, NEAR Shoemaker completed its mission by landing on the ... 
land on an asteroid. ... pected results of these investigations on NEAR were sum-. [DOC] [TLE] NEAR-SHOEMAKER AT EROS: THE FIRST DETAILED ... - Elements [PAR] ... February 1996, the NEAR spacecraft (later renamed NEAR-Shoemaker2 in 
honor of ... asteroid's surface on 12 February 2001. ... ated object. NEAR ... These 
are smooth deposits that have infilled ... landing site was in fact in one of these 
dusty ponds. ... the formation of the pond deposit on which NEAR most likely 
landed. [DOC] [TLE] The Solar System: Asteroids, Comets and Meteors [PAR] (March 1, 2001) The first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid and later to land on it fell 
... hope to drop the NEAR Shoemaker craft to a soft landing on Eros, a barren 
space rock. The Feb. 12 maneuver will not be easy: The craft was not designed to 
land. ... them an unexpectedly detailed look at how these icy

Question: On Feb. 12, 2001 the Near Shoemaker spacecraft landed on Eros, the first landing on one of these objects
Answer: asteroid