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NEAR Shoemaker

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a roboticspace probe designed by the Johns Hopkins UniversityApplied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroidEros from close orbit over a period of a year.

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