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Loading contentA near-Earth asteroid orbited by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker.
asteroid:erosDataset membership
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How 433 Eros connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
The Sun and the bodies gravitationally bound to it.
Near-Earth asteroids that approach Earth's orbit from the outside without crossing it, often crossing the orbit of Mars — named after 1221 Amor.
NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid (433 Eros, 2000) and the first to soft-land on one (2001).
A large, dark asteroid in the outer main belt.
A near-Earth asteroid sampled by NASA's OSIRIS-REx.
The first Mars-crossing asteroid discovered — its orbit crosses that of Mars.
The largest stony (S-type) asteroid and the parent of the Eunomia family in the intermediate main belt.
The namesake of the Hilda group, whose members orbit in a 3:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter in the outer main belt.
A metal-rich main-belt asteroid and NASA mission target.
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Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.