Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic...

NEOs are asteroids, but about 0.35% are comets. There are over 34,000 known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and over 120 known short-period near-Earth comets...

aims to study a metallic asteroid of the same name. Near-Earth asteroids can threaten all life on the planet; an asteroid impact event may have resulted...

designation (433) Eros) is a stony asteroid of the Amor group, and the first discovered, and second-largest near-Earth object. It has an elongated shape...

99942 Apophis (provisional designation 2004 MN4) is a near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous object with a diameter of 370 metres (1,210 feet)...

various other spacecraft anomalies, including a near-disaster with the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR Shoemaker) satellite. Liquid slosh in microgravity...

of the surfaces of planets. He participated in the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker (NEAR) mission as a research scholar at Northwestern University...

Rendezvous with Rama is a 1973 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Set in the 2130s, the story involves a 50-by-20-kilometre (31...

system. The first two Discovery missions were Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) (later called Shoemaker NEAR) and Mars Pathfinder. These initial missions...

Asteroid impact avoidance comprises the methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) on a potential collision course with Earth could be diverted away, preventing...