[meteorite-list] NEAR Shoemaker Becomes First Spacecraft To Land On An Asteroid

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:09 2004
Message-ID: <200102122021.MAA25001_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://near-mirror.boulder.swri.edu/news/flash/01feb12_6.html

          NEAR Shoemaker Becomes First Craft to Land on an Asteroid

          The first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid has become the
          first to land on one. At 3:07 p.m. EST today, NEAR
          mission operators at the Johns Hopkins University
          Applied Physics Laboratory confirmed that the NEAR
          Shoemaker spacecraft had touched down on the surface of
          asteroid 433 Eros, 196 million miles from Earth.

          NEAR team members will listen through NASA's Deep Space
          Network of antennas for a beacon that would indicate
          NEAR Shoemaker has survived the touchdown.
Received on Mon 12 Feb 2001 03:21:17 PM PST