... In the hypothetical scenario worked out in 2005 by Edward Lu and Stanley Love at NASA's Johnson Space Center , a 20 ton nuclear-electric spacecraft tows a 200 meter diameter asteroid by simply hovering near the asteroid. ...
... robotic NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft has been orbiting only 31 miles from asteroid Eros ... Cruising over the asteroid's north and south poles at a leisurely 7 miles per hour ...
... Explanation: Scroll right and fly close over asteroid Eros! ... kilometers of a spot in the southern hemisphere of the rotating asteroid's surface ... on its way to a higher, more stable orbit about 200 kilometers above asteroid Eros ...
... On Monday, January 26, well-tracked asteroid 2004 BL86 made its closest approach, a ... one, with the cluster nearly along the same line-of-sight to the near-earth asteroid ...
... The small asteroid was completely unknown before May. ... and Goldstone , tracked and imaged the Apollo asteroid as it approached to only 22 ... Earth, thousands of similar but unknown asteroids likely exist that cross Earth's ...
... in recent years to be one in a growing list of double asteroids , new observations during August and October 2004 made at the Paranal Observatory convincingly demonstrate that 87 Sylvia in fact has two moonlets - the first known triple asteroid system ...
... In the hypothetical scenario worked out in 2005 by Edward Lu and Stanley Love at NASA's Johnson Space Center , a 20 ton nuclear-electric spacecraft tows a 200 meter diameter asteroid by simply hovering near the asteroid. ...