Open AccessNEAR spacecraft makes first‐ever landing on an asteroid
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/01eo00051
Subject(s) - aeronautics , spacecraft , astrobiology , asteroid , newspaper , engineering , astronomy , history , aerospace engineering , physics , media studies , sociology
Robert Farquhar had a little extra reason to feel optimistic on February 12. The newspaper horoscope for Virgo for that day had indicated that his lucky number is five. “I thought, ‘Wait a minute, we have five burns today’” said Farquhar, mission director for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's (APL) NEAR Shoemaker mission.
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