... 2001 March 5 . Survivor: NEAR Shoemaker On Asteroid Eros . Credit: NEAR Project , NASA . ... part of a television game series, the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft survived its unprecedented landing on an asteroid last month ...
... 2013 November 12 . The Unexpected Tails of Asteroid P5 . Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and D. Jewitt ( UCLA ) et al. ... Image Credit: NASA , ESA , and D. Jewitt ( UCLA ) et al. Explanation: What is happening to asteroid P/2013 P5? No one is sure. ...
... This past Friday, the 50-meter wide asteroid 2012 DA14 just missed the Earth, passing not only inside the orbit of the Moon, which is unusually close for an asteroid of this size, but also inside the orbit of geosynchronous satellites . ...
... 2007 April 5 . Asteroid and Galaxy . Credit: Robert Long . ... Explanation: Apollo class asteroid 2006 VV2 flashed past planet Earth in late March, approaching to within 3.4 million ...
... 2005 November 21 . The Missing Craters of Asteroid Itokawa . Credit Copyright: ISAS , JAXA . ... Credit Copyright: ISAS , JAXA . Explanation: Where are the craters on asteroid Itokawa? No one knows. ...
... 2002 August 17 . Asteroid 2002 NY40 . Credit: K. Zwintz ( Univ. Viena ), H. Tirado and A. Gomez ( CTIO , NOAO) . ... Explanation: Asteroid 2002 NY40 will fly by planet Earth early in the morning August 18 Universal Time (late in the evening ...
... 2001 February 13 . NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . ... Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface ...
... As if in anticipation of today being Asteroid Day on Earth, the robotic spacecraft Dawn in orbit around Ceres took the best yet image of an unusually tall mountain on the Asteroid Belt's largest asteroid. ...