Concept information
Preferred term
NEAR Shoemaker space probe
Definition(s)
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR 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 succeeded in closing in with the asteroid and afterward orbited it several times. On February 12, 2001, the mission succeeded in touching down on the asteroid. It was terminated just over two weeks later. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker)
Broader concept(s)
Synonym(s)
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker
- NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft
In other languages
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-LH8JCF4N-7
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