NEAR spacecraft dedicated to cometary astronomy pioneer
NASA has renamed the NEAR spacecraft –currently orbiting the asteroid 43 Eros– after the late Eugene Shoemaker. Shoemaker made a career out of discovering archaic impact craters obscured by millions of years of weather and tectonics. He also was a co-discoverer of the famous ‘string of pearls’ comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9, which slammed into Jupiter back in the mid 1990′s.
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