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Estimating the Mass of Asteroid 433 Eros During the NEAR Spacecraft Flyby

Estimating the Mass of Asteroid 433 Eros During the NEAR Spacecraft Flyby

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Estimating the Mass of Asteroid 433 Eros During the NEAR Spacecraft Flyby

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Estimating the Mass of Asteroid 433 Eros During the NEAR Spacecraft Flyby

Publisher

Washington, DC: American Society for the Advancement of Science

Journal title

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 1999-07, Vol.285 (5427), p.560-561

Language

English

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Washington, DC: American Society for the Advancement of Science

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Contents

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew within 3830 kilometers of asteroid 433 Eros on 23 December 1998. The gravitational perturbation on NEAR was evident in the spacecraft tracking data. Ground-based Doppler and range tracking of the spacecraft as well as spacecraft images of the asteroid's center of figure and surface features...

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Estimating the Mass of Asteroid 433 Eros During the NEAR Spacecraft Flyby

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743754850

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743754850

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ISSN

0036-8075

E-ISSN

1095-9203

DOI

10.1126/science.285.5427.560

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