Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic...

shoemaker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A shoemaker is a person making shoes. Shoemaker may also refer to: Shoemaker (surname) NEAR Shoemaker,...

Shoemaker   Eros   Earth   Mathilde   Sun . Animation of NEAR Shoemaker's trajectory around 433 Eros from 1 April 2000 to 12 February 2001.    NEAR Shoemaker ·...

Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and...

ten years worthwhile. The first near-Earth asteroid to be visited by a spacecraft was 433 Eros when NASA's NEAR Shoemaker probe orbited it from February...

Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the...

amplification reaction (NEAR), a method of DNA amplification NEAR Protocol, a layer-1 blockchain NEAR Shoemaker, a spacecraft that studied the near-Earth asteroid...

only 4% of the light that falls on it. Mathilde was visited by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft during June 1997, on its way to asteroid 433 Eros. During...

Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University and contributor to the NEAR Shoemaker mission † MPC · 5446 5447 Lallement 1991 PO14 Rosine Lallement (born...

concepts that could be implemented as low-cost programs, selecting NEAR Shoemaker which became the first launch in the Discovery Program on February 17...

regoliths developed by meteoroid impact. The final images taken by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft of the surface of Eros are the best images of the regolith...

crewed missions. Successes in space exploration included the landing of NEAR Shoemaker on an asteroid and the arrival of 2001 Mars Odyssey on Mars. Politics...

by NASA and JAXA, with plans for other missions in progress. NASA's NEAR Shoemaker studied Eros, and Dawn observed Vesta and Ceres. JAXA's missions Hayabusa...

first asteroid to be orbited and landed upon by a robotic space probe (NEAR Shoemaker). The orbital characteristics that define an asteroid as being in the...

the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft which entered its orbit in 2000, closely imaging the asteroid with various instruments at that time. NEAR Shoemaker became...

other spacecraft anomalies, including a near-disaster with the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR Shoemaker) satellite. Liquid slosh in microgravity...

Michael C. Shoemaker (born 1945) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was born in 1945 in Nipgen, Ohio (Ross County). Shoemaker's father...

Stanford University were at an advantage; they had recently developed NEAR Shoemaker for NASA, which had successfully entered orbit around 433 Eros earlier...

Tunguska-sized events, on the order of 5–15 megatons, are much rarer. Eugene Shoemaker estimated that 20-kiloton events occur annually and that Tunguska-sized...

Identified Missions and Launch Failures". NASA. Retrieved 27 August 2016. "WIND Near Real-Time Data". NASA. 3 December 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2017. "soho...

minilander, MINERVA, which failed to reach the surface. NASA's Galileo and NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft had visited asteroids before, but the Hayabusa mission was...

Congress in 1992. Originally a Planetary Observer program mission, NEAR Shoemaker was reassigned to the Discovery program, after the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

NEAR Shoemaker, which was launched in February 1996, and entered orbit around 433 Eros in February 2000, having first flown past 253 Mathilde. NEAR was...

Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (June 24, 1929 – August 13, 2021) was an American astronomer and a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She discovered...

lunar orbit on 5 August, and India became the first country to touch down near the lunar south pole, at 69°S, the southernmost lunar landing on 23 August...

charge NASA a parking and storage fee of twenty cents per year for its NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft that is permanently stored there. Nemitz's case was dismissed...

The spacecraft's systems are protected from the extreme heat and radiation near the Sun by a solar shield. Incident solar radiation at perihelion is approximately...

Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University and contributor to the NEAR Shoemaker mission MPC · 4642 4643 Cisneros 1990 QD6 Ernest Cisneros (born 1964)...

2027. It is planned to return up to 3 kg (6.6 lb) of lunar regolith from near Statio Shiv Shakti, the landing site of Chandrayaan-3. The plan for a lunar...

over energy it receives from the Sun. Winds blow at high speeds on Saturn. Near the equator, the Voyagers measured winds about 500 m/s (1,100 mph). The wind...