[DOC] [TLE] NEAR Shoemaker - Wikipedia [PAR] The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous  Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), 
renamed after its ... To accomplish these goals, the spacecraft was equipped with 
an ... Between December 1999 and February 2001 NEAR Shoemaker used its 
gamma-ray ... NEAR went into a 321366 km elliptical orbit around Eros on 
February 14. [DOC] [TLE] Space Missions and Space Craft - The Nine Planets [PAR] A description of past space missions & craft of interest to planetary science. ... 
The last data from Viking (Lander 1) made its final transmission to Earth Nov. .... 
The spacecraft will enter the Martian atmosphere without going into orbit around 
the planet ... should arrive in orbit around asteroid 433 Eros in early January 
1999. [DOC] [TLE] NEAR Shoemaker - nssdc - NASA [PAR] The mission was the first-ever to orbit an asteroid and to touch down on the 
surface of ... To accomplish these goals, the spacecraft is equipped with an X-ray/
gamma ray ... was to study the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros from orbit for 
approximately one year. ... NEAR went into a 321 x 366 km orbit around Eros on 
14 February. [DOC] [TLE] Frequently Asked Questions - Near-Earth Object Program - NASA [PAR] Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by 
the ... of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth's 
neighborhood. ... Some 875 of these NEOs are asteroids with a diameter of 
approximately 1 ... The evolved gas forms a tenuous atmosphere around the 
nucleus called a... [DOC] [TLE] Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker ... [PAR] NEAR Shoemaker first spacecraft to orbit and then land on an asteroid (Eros, ... 
miles]) around Eros, NEAR Shoemaker studied the object's mass, structure, ... up 
orbit around the planet, at the same time releasing a probe into the turbulent ... 
between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in a nearly flat ring called the asteroid belt. [DOC] [TLE] Spacecraft [PAR] They are heading off into interstellar space, the first craft ever to do so. ... The last 
data from Viking (Lander 1) made its final transmission to Earth Nov. .... the 
Pioneer 10 spacecraft and is now the most distant human-made object in space. 
.... spacecraft should arrive in orbit around asteroid 433 Eros in early January 
1999. [DOC] [TLE] Comets, Asteroids, Meteorites and Impacts [PAR] Some of the orbits aren't even elliptical - the comets just do one passage in ... 10 
km in diameter, much smaller than many other objects going around the Sun. ... 
These include the gas tail (also called the ion tail), which is made up of ..... On 
February 14, 2000 the NEAR spacecraft went into orbit about the asteroid Eros. [DOC] [TLE] PDF (1.5MB) - Wiley Online Library [PAR] Oct 25, 1997 ... powered, three-axis stabilized spacecraft with a launch mass including ... Those 
that come within 1.3 AU of the Sun are called near-Earth objects. ... not have 
appreciable probability for evolving into one. ... The NEAR mission will spend a 
year in orbit around Eros. .... approach to Eros in early January 1999. [DOC] [TLE] Spacecraft Exploration of Asteroids - Lunar and Planetary Institute [PAR] Oct 26, 2000 ... Space One's flyby of 9969 Braille, and finally NEAR Shoemaker's ... of Defense 
spacecraft called Clementine was scheduled to ... inserted into an orbit around 
the relatively large near-Earth ..... dezvous date of January 10, 1999, was no 
longer possible,. NEAR ... craft into a 321  366-km orbit around Eros. [DOC] [TLE] So, about that asteroid near Earth ... - CNN.com [PAR] Feb 8, 2013 ... ... but on February 15 an asteroid is going to come pretty close to Earth. ... And 
this is only one of thousands of objects that are destined to one day enter our ... 
Near Earth Objects are comets or asteroids in orbits that allow them to enter ... 
OSIRIS-REx will visit an asteroid called 1999 RQ36, take a sample of... [DOC] [TLE] 4 Characterization | Defending Planet Earth:

Question: In January 1999 a spacecraft called "NEAR" is due to go into orbit around Eros, one of these objects
Answer: Asteroid