http://www.nightskyinfo.com: Weekly news about the night sky and articles on selected astronomical topics.

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Mission: Managed by The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), this mission far exceeded its original goals. Spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker was the first mission to rendezvous and orbit an asteroid (433 Eros), the first to land on an asteroid, and the first to perform scientific study from the surface of an asteroid. (http://near.jhuapl.edu/)

NEAR:

NEAR Mission Home Page: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is the builder and mission controller for the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission. (http://near.jhuapl.edu/)

NEAR-Shoemaker Spacecraft: Master Catalog entry on the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), based at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1996-008A.html)

NEAR-Shoemaker Spacecraft, NASA/NSSDC Entry: A variation of the information provided at the above site. (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/near.html)

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