Is 433 Eros Asteroid Younger Than Expected?

February 15, 2000 photograph while the NEAR satellite was passing directly over the large gouge "saddle" that is surprisingly smooth and free of craters. Detail down to 120 feet (35 meters) across. Narrow parallel troughs closely follow the shape of the saddle gouge. Photograph courtesy Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.

February 27, 2000 Laurel, Maryland - A human machine is orbiting an asteroid for the first time in known human history. It's a NASA satellite called NEAR for Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous. NEAR moved into orbit around an asteroid called 433 Eros on February 14th. At first the NEAR satellite was photographing at a range of 210 miles. But this past week on February 23rd, NEAR moved into about 130 miles from Eros. The satellite will keep getting closer to the asteroid over the next 12 months until its mission is completed in February 2001.

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