Orbiter
NEAR Shoemaker
NASA
The first craft to orbit an asteroid, Eros, and the first to land on one, in 2001; Horizons carries it on with Eros.
Open in 3DThe flight
February 19, 1996
Launch
January 23, 1998
Flies past Earth, 6,910 km away
December 31, 2009
JPL’s track of it ends
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
Facts
- What it is
- Orbiter
- Agency
- NASA