TABLE OF CONTENTS.
C1. GALLERIES.
C2. REVIEWS.
C3. FAQ.
C4. HOME PAGES.
C5. EROS.
C6. MAPS.
C7. MOVIES & LINKS.
C8. OTHER ASTEROIDS.
C9. BROWSERS.
C10. INSTRUMENTS.
C11. PUBLICATIONS.
C1. GALLERIES.
a. APOD Main Gallery.
Astronomy Pictures Of the Day. More than 2,200 APOD are listed of which about 30 are of Eros.
Clicking here to give you todays APOD. In the upper left corner click Discover the cosmos to get a complete listing of all APOD images. Try the Search and Index features.
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b. IOD Main Gallery.
Image Of the Day. ONE image was selected from the hundreds NEAR sent back each day. The others may be on the web somewhere.
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In the IOD gallery:
Click: Text only for a table of all IOD images.
Click: Earlier images or Later images to get a new page of images-- seven pages in all.
Click: Either the image or its name in the table to get a larger image & caption.
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c. IOD Images.
The nest gives side by side images with no captions. Cool.
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d. IOD. The Very-Best-Gallery-Ever.
It has many new & unusual images and captions, a great show. The images & captions come up as its slowly loading giving you can read the captions. Click any image to get a splendid larger version with no the caption. Links at the bottom of the page lead to other galleries.
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C2. REVIEWS.
a. Pictorial Review.
Discussion of the NEAR-Shoemaker program up to 1/22/99 [13 months before NEAR's orbit]. Try all seven options, my favorite is Why Voyage to an Asteroid?
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b. Tutorial-1.
Basic review- Ida- Gaspra- Mathilde- pre Eros- asteroid & meteorite properties- short asteroid table- many excellent links.
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c. Tutorial-2.
Dialog- basic asteroid information- technical- asteroid belt- Gaspra- Ida- Eros- wandering hype & style of news paper articles.
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d. Earth Asteroid Collisions.
Tutorial -2 continued. News report 2/22/01- asteroid & Earth collision- wondering- contemporary hype mixed with science. Fun sorting out which is which. Good reading for bull sessions. Bring a smile. Published in that renowned Journal, The Metaphysical & Science Website by Ellie Crystal, Mystic. [No joke see its main page.]
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e. Weekly Reports.
List of weekly reports of the mission. Has index- glossary- text- no images.
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f. HOT-LINE.
Same as above with Archives, Science & Press sections.
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C3. FAQ.
a. Basic FAQ.
Q & A. Plus interesting links in the text.
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b. Technical FAQ.
Interview- dialog- longer-detailed- many topics-early Eros orbit 27 February 2000- links are at top of the page- interesting.
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c. Technical FAQ continued.
Interview- 16 February 2000 on Asteroid- Earth Collision + more.
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C4. HOME PAGES.
a. APOD.
Astronomy Picture Of the Day. Starts with todays image. In the upper left corner click Discover the cosmos to get some 2,200 earlier ones.
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b. IOD.
Image Of the Day. NEAR home page. Links at right go to major topics. Click pictures to see an enlarged image with caption. I find this a rather difficult home page.
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c. NEAR.
Many links to Eros/NEAR programs + other goodies.
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d. Stardial.
Teaching program for student of all ages. Has wide angle CCD images of stars in band of 0.0 to 24 hours RA by 0.0 to -8 degrees Dec. continuously recorded, every 15 minutes, from August 1996 to last night. Limiting magnitude = 12.5. Contains more than 50 thousand unprocessed images of stars- variables- asteroids- meteors- comets- artificial satellites- mysterious objects- jet trails- clouds- etc. Has links to a wide variety of other astronomical topics & projects.
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C5. EROS.
a. Curve Wall.
Here's a curved wall + troughs of many widths, shapes & orientations- a busy scene.
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b. Curves Troughs.
Mysterious curved trough with other fainter troughs running in all directions.
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c. Peculiar troughs.
One J-shaped trough + a second making a V.
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d. Light Curves.
Three light curves each covering one Eros day from distances of:
460,000 miles. Taken fourteen months before NEAR orbited.
Eros [Taken 12/14/98-12/15/98].
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27,000 miles. With just a month to go before the orbit [1/12/00-1/13/00].
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4,200 miles. And very nearly there, about one Earth radius to go [2/13/00].
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Q: What can light curves tell us about asteroids?
Light curves, like spectra, can be taken at any distance. It doesn't matter how far the signal has traveled, kilometers or lightyears, it's just the signal strength that matters. After all, for light curves, the variation in brightness is the measurement.
C6. MAPS.
a. North Pole.
Lat/long grid with some unusual curves.
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Q: Are the poles of Eros colder than its equator?
b. Eros Names.
A map, in a cylindrical projection, of Eros place & crater names. Areas near the poles are necessarily distorted. Click the image for a larger version.
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C7. MOVIES & LINKS.
What's Showing?
List of eight movies + an endless collection of fascinating links. Mega bytes everywhere. Bring your lunch.
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If the image does peculiar things like blinking at you, clear your computer's history & cache and refresh the image. Good luck.
C8. OTHER ASTEROIDS.
a. Gaspra.
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b. Ida and its Moon Dactyl.
Several asteroids are now known to have Moons.
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c. Mathilde.
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And more Mathilde.
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d. Mathilde & Eros.
Mathilde isn't closer, it's bigger. Images are shown to the same scale.
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e. Mathilde, Gaspra & Ida.
Also shown to the same scale.
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f. Crater Densities.
For Gaspra, Ida, Eros & Mathilde. Read the caption.
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g. Project.
Plot to scale the diameters of asteroids: Ceres, Vesta, Eros, Gaspra, Ida & Mathilde. Surprise!
C9. BROWSERS.
Google.
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Then enter: Asteroid Eros- Ida- Gaspra- Mathilde- Kirkwood gap- etc. Bring your tent.
C10. INSTRUMENTS.
a. Instruments on NEAR.
Photos and detailed discussion of the each of the six instruments on board NEAR + links to other technical data.
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b. Science Results.
Excellent review of early scientific results. Nice image gallery + links.
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C11. PUBLICATIONS.
a. NEAR papers to 4/1/98.
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b. Sky & Telescope.
S&T Feb 2000 p32-33 Ganymede.
S&T May 2000 p16-17 Eros.
S&T Dec 2000 p24-25 Weathering.
S&T May 2001 p34-37 Landing on Eros.
S&T July 2001 p28.______Ganymede.
S&T July 2001 p44-51 Asteroids. [Best so far.].
c. Journal of Science Sept 2001. Four scientific papers with the largest one-time release of Eros scientific data to date.
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END PART C.
Rev 7/23/01.