The landing of the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid 433 Eros

Nature

Volumn 413, Issue 6854, 2001, Pages 390-393

  Veverka, J ^a   Farquhar, B ^b   Robinson, M ^c   Thomas, P ^a   Murchie, S ^b   Harch, A ^a   Antreasian, P G ^d   Chesley, S R ^d   Miller, J K ^d   Owen Jr , W M ^d   Williams, B G ^d   Yeomans, D ^d   Dunham, D ^b   Heyler, G ^b   Holdridge, M ^b   Nelson, R L ^b   Whittenburg, K E ^b   Ray, J C ^b   Carcich, B ^a   Cheng, A ^b   Chapman, C ^e   Bell III, J F ^a   Bell, M ^a   Bussey, B ^c   Clark, B ^a   Domingue, D ^b   Gaffey, M J ^f   Hawkins, E ^b   Izenberg, N ^b   Joseph, J ^a   Kirk, R ^g   Lucey, P ^h   Malin, M ⁱ   McFadden, L ^j   Merline, W J ^e   Peterson, C ^a   Prockter, L ^b   Warren, J ^b   Wellnitz, D ^j   more..

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

ⁱ MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^j Bldg 142   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPACE RESEARCH;

ASTEROIDS;

SPACECRAFT LANDING;

ASTEROID; CRATER; EJECTA;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; TELEMETRY;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0035960042     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35096507     Document Type: Article

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5. The nature of ponded deposits on Eros
6. Imaging of small-scale features on 433 Eros from NEAR: Evidence for a complex regolith
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9. Ejecta blocks on 243 Ida and on other asteroids
10. Phobos: Regolith and ejecta blocks investigated with Mars orbiter camera images
11. Downslope movement of material on Deimos
12. Impact history of Eros: Craters and boulders
13. Multispectral imager on the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission
14. An overview of the NEAR multispectral imager-near-infrared spectrometer investigation