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    2867 Šteins (provisional designation 1969 VC) is an irregular, diamond-shaped background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately...
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  • craters (5.3%)   Mathilde: 23 craters (6.4%)   Pluto: 17 craters (4.7%)   Šteins: 23 craters (6.4%)   Vesta: 90 craters (24.9%) This is a list of all named...
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    spacecraft performed flybys of Earth, Mars, and the asteroids 21 Lutetia and 2867 Šteins. It was launched as the third cornerstone mission of the ESA's Horizon...
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  • Steins may refer to: Kārlis Šteins, Latvian astronomer Walter Steins, Dutch Jesuit priest 2867 Šteins, a small main-belt asteroid Steins;??? Stein (disambiguation)...
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    2008, ESA's robotic spaceprobe Rosetta visited the E-type asteroid 2867 Šteins. Spectral data from the spacecraft confirmed the asteroid was composed...
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  • also discovered a very large number of asteroids, including notably 2867 Šteins and the Trojan asteroid 2207 Antenor. Chernykh worked with his wife and...
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  • comet, the spacecraft flew by Mars and the asteroids 21 Lutetia and 2867 Šteins. Airbus Defence and Space is the world's largest supplier of Earth observation...
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    Braille (by Deep Space 1 in 1999), 5535 Annefrank (by Stardust in 2002), 2867 Šteins and 21 Lutetia (by the Rosetta probe in 2008), and 4179 Toutatis (China's...
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    Solar System. That enabled it to flyby the asteroids 21 Lutetia and 2867 Šteins as well as eventually match the velocity of the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko...
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    June 2006 distant flyby success flew past Pluto successfully 2006-001A 2867 Šteins Rosetta ESA 5 September 2008 flyby success en route to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko...
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