... been hit by a large, fragmented comet or asteroid similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 ... the break-up of a large comet or asteroid prior to impact," said Adriana Ocampo, a ...
... Flybys of two asteroids on the way to the comet are also planned. ... A flyby of the mainbelt asteroid 3840 Mimistrobell will occur about 300 days later ... A flyby of asteroid 2530 Shipka will take place approximately 2,100 days after ...
... System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more ... Uranus . Neptune . Pluto . Asteroids . Comets . Meteorites . History . ...
... Clementine headed for a flyby of asteroid 1620 Geographos, but the spacecraft suffered a failure that prevented it from obtaining images of this world. ...
... Animated GIF of Asteroid 4769 Castalia. Animation of Amalthea. ... Animation of The Rotating Asteroid Castalia . ... Movie of Asteroid Vesta in Rotation . Shape Model Animation of Gaspra . ...
... image of the Earth-Moon system was recorded by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft earlier this month ... system , the NEAR spacecraft used Earth's gravity to deflect it towards its ultimate destination, the Asteroid 433 Eros ...
... the first spacecraft to encounter an asteroid and to photograph an asteroid's moon ... flew by the asteroid Gaspra , obtaining the world's first close-up asteroid images ...