{"id":557,"date":"2011-02-17T11:12:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T11:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=557"},"modified":"2011-02-17T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T11:12:37","slug":"near-shoemaker-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/near-shoemaker-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"NEAR-Shoemaker Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago today &#8212; February 17, 1996 &#8212; the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft launched on a Delta-II rocket out of Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/image\/spacecraft\/near_config.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nThe spacecraft was renamed <a href=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/nmc\/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1996-008A\">NEAR-Shoemaker<\/a> in honor of astronomer Gene Shoemaker, and was sent on its way to the asteroid Eros.  <\/p>\n<p>NEAR-Shoemaker flew by the asteroid 253 Mathilde on June 27, 1997, made a gravity-assist maneuver around Earth on January 23, 1998, flew by Eros on 23 December 1998, and finally entered into a tight orbit around Eros on (appropriately enough) Valentine&#8217;s Day 2000. 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1996 &#8212; the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft launched on a Delta-II rocket out of Cape Canaveral. 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