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How close does Eros get to Earth?
A member of a group called near-Earth, or Earth-approaching, asteroids, Eros can pass within 22 million km (14 million miles) of Earth.
What asteroid did near land on?
Eros
What was NEAR Shoemaker? NASA’s NEAR was the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid and also was the first to land on one. NEAR’s landing on Eros marked the first time a U.S. spacecraft was the first to land on a celestial body, having been beaten by the Soviets in landing on the Moon, Mars, and Venus.
Will 433 Eros hit Earth?
In a paper published today in the journal Nature, mathematicians at the University of Pisa in Italy and the Observatory of the Cote d’Azur in France report that within a million or so years, there is a 50 percent chance that 433 Eros will be nudged into an Earth-crossing orbit.
How much is 433 Eros worth?
There are 29,167 troy ounces per short ton for a total 656,250,000,000,000 troy ounces. At today’s price, that is $492,187,500,000,000,000 (~1/2 quintillion dollars).
What is shoemaker in space?
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 …
Can Eros hit Earth?
Some bad news from European mathematicians: there seems to be a significant chance that within the next 1.14 million years, an asteroid named 433 Eros could hit Earth, with dire results for the human race and most other species. Little 433 Eros is not on most lists of potential planetary catastrophes.
Has any spacecraft landed on an asteroid?
Yes, on February 12, 2001 flight controllers landed NASA’s NEAR spacecraft on an asteroid called Eros. NEAR was the first spacecraft to orbit and touchdown on the surface of an asteroid. Eros is the largest of the asteroids whose orbits cross the orbit of the Earth.
Has anyone been buried on the moon?
Although most of us know the story of the 1969 moon landing as part of the Apollo 11 mission, fewer know about Eugene Shoemaker, the only person ever to have been buried on the moon.