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NEAR Not Far from

Saturday February 05 by Claudia bournespace
NASA reported Thursday that its first spacecraft ever slated to orbit an asteroid is on track for a Valentine’s Day encounter with a stony body named, appropriately enough, Eros. At noon Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft fired its medium-sized thrusters for 90 seconds, slowing the probe’s speed relative to the asteroid 433 Eros to 18 m.p.h. (29 kilometers per hour) from 43 m.p.h. (69 kilometers per hour).





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