NEAR ON TARGET FOR TWO ASTEROIDS
The first spacecraft sent to orbit an asteroid was well on its way late last week toward the optional flyby of another asteroid in 1997 before reaching Eros in 1999. The Feb. 17 launch of NASA's Near, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, placed the probe on a trajectory leaving Earth that...
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