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License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eros_-_PIA02923_(color).jpg
Title = Eros is a stony and elongated asteroid of the Amor group and the first discovered and second-largest near-Earth object with a mean diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers. Visited by the NEAR Shoemaker space probe in 1998, it became the first asteroid ever studied from orbit. The eccentric asteroid was discovered by German astronomer Carl Gustav Witt at the Berlin Observatory on 13 August 1898, and later named after Eros, a god from Greek mythology0x003B the son of Aphrodite who is identified with the planet Venus.
URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Eros_-_PIA02923_(color).jpg
02_Rotation/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eros_rotation_Dec._3-4_2000.gif
02_Rotation/Title = NEAR Shoemaker captured this movie on December 3-4, 2000, while in orbit 200 kilometers from the center of Eros. Covering a full rotation of the 21-mile-long asteroid, the movie opens with a look at one of Eros' battered ends and a sweep over the saddle-shaped depression named Himeros. The sequence then includes a view of Shoemaker Regio - the large boulder patch beside Himeros - before swinging over the opposite end and providing a stunning view of a sunset inside Psyche, the asteroid's large, 5-kilometer (3-mile) impact crater. The movie wraps up with a return to the asteroid's heavily cratered tip.
02_Rotation/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Eros_rotation_Dec._3-4_2000.gif
03_SixViews/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA02475_Eros'_Bland_Butterscotch_Colors.jpg
03_SixViews/Title = Six different views of Eros in approximate natural color from NEAR-Shoemaker in February 2000
03_SixViews/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/PIA02475_Eros'_Bland_Butterscotch_Colors.jpg
04_CloseUpRegolith/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erosregolith.jpg
04_CloseUpRegolith/Title = Regolith of Eros, seen during NEAR's descent0x003B area shown is about 12 meters (40 feet) across
04_CloseUpRegolith/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Erosregolith.jpg
90_Explore_01_NEARShoemaker_01/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NEAR_Shoemaker_spacecraft_model.png
90_Explore_01_NEARShoemaker_01/Title = The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous 0x2013 Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year. The mission succeeded in closing in with the asteroid and orbited it several times, finally terminating by touching down on the asteroid on February 12, 2001.
90_Explore_01_NEARShoemaker_01/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/NEAR_Shoemaker_spacecraft_model.png
90_Explore_01_NEARShoemaker_02_InsideRocket/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NEARCraft.jpg
90_Explore_01_NEARShoemaker_02_InsideRocket/Title = NEAR spacecraft inside its Delta II rocket.
90_Explore_01_NEARShoemaker_02_InsideRocket/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/NEARCraft.jpg
90_Explore_01_NEARShoemaker_03_Launch/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NEARlaunch.jpg
90_Explore_01_NEARShoemaker_03_Launch/Title = Launch of the NEAR spacecraft, February 1996.
90_Explore_01_NEARShoemaker_03_Launch/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/NEARlaunch.jpg

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