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    253 Mathilde is an asteroid in the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately 50 kilometers in diameter, that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann...
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    list of named craters on 253 Mathilde, an asteroid of the asteroid belt, approximately 53 kilometers in diameter. Because Mathilde is a dark, carbonaceous...
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    before the flyby of the 61 km diameter asteroid 253 Mathilde. On June 27, 1997, NEAR flew by Mathilde within 1200 km at 12:56 UT at 9.93 km/s, returning...
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    Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is a system of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so...
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    of his notable discoveries include 153 Hilda, 216 Kleopatra, 243 Ida, 253 Mathilde, 324 Bamberga, and the near-Earth asteroid 719 Albert. Palisa made his...
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  • Van Sandau (1843–1926), British suffragette 253 Mathilde, an asteroid Mathilde (film), a 2004 film "Mathilde" (song), by Jacques Brel, 1964 Matilde di Shabran...
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    century. The crater Loewy on the Moon is named after him and asteroid 253 Mathilde is believed to be named after his wife. He died in Paris at a government...
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    broadly similar in appearance, if irregular in shape. 50 km (31 mi) 253 Mathilde is a rubble pile saturated with craters with diameters the size of the...
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  • There are a number of objects in the solar system that have been named after Bulgarian people or places. Many of these are craters on the terrestrial planets...
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    spacecraft imaged 951 Gaspra in 1991 and 243 Ida in 1993, then NEAR imaged 253 Mathilde in 1997 and landed on near–Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February 2001....
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    launched on December 4, 1996, carried the Sojourner rover to Mars. Asteroid 253 Mathilde Mars Pathfinder's view of Ares Vallis Animation of the rotation of 433...
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  • Matanuska (crater) (category 253 Mathilde)
    Matanuska is an impact crater on the minor planet 253 Mathilde. It is 2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi) in diameter. It is named after a coal field in the Matanuska-Susitna...
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    Clark, Beth Ellen (March 1998). Near Photometry of C-Type Asteroid 253 Mathilde (PDF). 29th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Lunar and Planetary...
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  • software elements were developed and implemented. During the flybys of (253) Mathilde and (433) Eros (as well as the earth), Ernest worked with the science...
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  • Clementina October 11, 1885 Nice J. Perrotin  · 65 km MPC · JPL 253 MathildeMathilde November 12, 1885 Vienna J. Palisa slow 53 km MPC · JPL 254 Augusta...
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  • Perrotin (1845–1904) DMP · 252 253 MathildeMathilde, wife of French astronomer Maurice Loewy (1833–1907) DMP · 253 254 Augusta – Auguste von Littrow...
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  • List of geological features on 243 Ida and Dactyl List of craters on 253 Mathilde List of geological features on 433 Eros List of geological features on...
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  • Karoo (crater) (category 253 Mathilde)
    Karoo is an impact crater on the asteroid 253 Mathilde, named for the Great Karoo Basin, a coal basin in South Africa. It is 33.4 kilometers in diameter...
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    entered orbit around 433 Eros in February 2000, having first flown past 253 Mathilde. NEAR was also the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid, surviving...
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  • Mathilde Roth Schechter (also Matilda; December 16, 1859 – August 27, 1924) was the American founder of the U.S. National Women's League of Conservative...
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  • v t e Minor planets navigator 251 Sophia 252 Clementina 253 Mathilde...
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    253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid...
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    low densities are thought to be rubble piles, for example 253 Mathilde. The mass of Mathilde, as determined by the NEAR Shoemaker mission, is far too low...
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  • itself, so a different explanation must be sought for objects such as 253 Mathilde. In late 2013 asteroid P/2013 R3 was observed breaking apart, likely...
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    craters of a size comparable to its radius, like those seen for example on 253 Mathilde. A probable reason is that the collision that produced the Flora family...
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    Typhon I Echidna Logos I Zoe 5 more moons of TNOs 90 Antiope 58534 Logos 253 Mathilde and many others 25–50 Carme Metis Sinope Lysithea Ananke Siarnaq Helene...
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    v t e Minor planets navigator 253 Mathilde 254 Augusta 255 Oppavia...
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    equipment malfunction 1994-004A 253 Mathilde NEAR Shoemaker NASA 27 June 1997 flyby success flew within 1200 km of 253 Mathilde en route to 433 Eros 1996-008A...
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    impact, or alternatively, a stronger faster acting gravitational tractor, as some low-density asteroids such as 253 Mathilde can dissipate impact energy....
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    Browser: 253 Mathilde" (2018-10-22 last obs). Retrieved 4 May 2019. D. K. Yeomans; et al. (1997). "Estimating the mass of asteroid 253 Mathilde from tracking...
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