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LINKS TO INFORMATION ON ASTEROIDS & COMETS & NEOs Images and data from the final descent of NEAR spacecraft to surface of asteroid Eros. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000226.html False-color image of crater structure off Yucatan peninsula, from asteroid hit 65 million years ago. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990901.html Radar image of a small asteroid that "narrowly" missed impacting Earth. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980712.html Image of an asteroid from Galileo spacecraft on its journey to Jupiter. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970701.html Large craters on an asteroid, from NEAR project. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010926.html Best image to date of a comet’s nucleus, from innovative Deep Space 1 spacecraft, powered by ion drive. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010922.html About ion drive of Deep Space 1, for those interested in propulsion. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000805.html Second best image of a cometary nucleus – Halley’s comet, from the Italian spacecraft Giotto. |