NEAR Shoemaker

Rarity: Uncommon

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – 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.

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Image: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1996-008A, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.