... have flown through the asteroid belt have found that the belt is really quite empty and that asteroids are separated by very ... Then on October 1991 asteroid 951 Gaspra was visited by the Galileo spacecraft and became the first asteroid to have hi ...
... Researchers obtained radar images of the asteroid on August 30, 1994, when the asteroid was 7.2 million kilometers (4.5 million miles) from Earth. ...
... Gaspra . Asteroid 951 . Gaspra (Asteroid 951) was discovered by Grigoriy N. Neujamin in 1916. ... Gaspra . Asteroid 951 . Gaspra (Asteroid 951) was discovered by Grigoriy N. Neujamin in 1916. ...
... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...
... asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter -- the 243rd asteroid to ... asteroid was shattered in a collision with another asteroid, giving birth to dozens ...
... Toutatis . Asteroid 4179 . ... In 1989, asteroid 4179 was discovered by French astronomers and named after a Celtic god that was the protector of the tribe in ...
... In 1996, at the "Asteroids, Comets and Meteors 96" meeting, the asteroid N. 6011 has been officially named "Tozzi" in honor of my research activity on the Solar System. ...