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Asteroid rendezvous: Better luck next year

Delayed by a year because of mishaps that occurred when the spacecraft lost radio contact with Earth, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission is now scheduled to meet up with an asteroid called 433 Eros on Valentine's Day, 2000.

References:

Additional information about the NEAR mission can be found at http://near.jhuapl.edu.

Further Readings:

Cowen, R. Plans change for NEAR visit to an asteroid. Science News 155(Jan. 2):7.

Sources:

Robert W. Farquhar
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
Space Physics Group
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723-6099

Donald K. Yeomans
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mailstop Code 301-150
Pasadena, CA 91109-8099

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 4, January 23, 1999, p. 57. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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