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Keywords: NEAR project, asteroid, spacecraft, Eros
![Японский корабль снабжения Коунотори - 2 приближается к МКС](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/01/31/0001249550/kountori2_iss_900.preview.jpg)
31.01.2011
The care package from Earth had arrived. Last week, Japan launched the robotic Kounotori2 spacecraft to bring needed supplies, including food, to the International Space Station (ISS). Kountori2 launched from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center a little over a week ago reached the ISS in low Earth late last week.
![Вид на Весту](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/07/19/0001252916/vesta1_dawn_900.preview.jpg)
19.07.2011
What does the surface of asteroid Vesta look like? The brightest asteroid in the Solar System and the object which takes up about 10 percent of the entire mass of the main asteroid belt had never been seen up close before.
![Южный полюс астероида Веста](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/09/19/0001253761/vestasouthpole_dawn_900.preview.jpg)
19.09.2011
What created the circular structure around the south pole of asteroid Vesta? Pictured above, the bottom of the second largest object in the asteroid belt was recently imaged for the first time by the robotic Dawn satellite that arrived last month.
![Астероид 2005 YU55 пролетает мимо Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/11/09/0001254556/yu55_dsn_900.preview.jpg)
9.11.2011
Asteroid 2005 YU55 passed by the Earth yesterday, posing no danger. The space rock, estimated to be about 400 meters across, coasted by just inside the orbit of Earth's Moon. Although the passing...
![Орбиты потенциально опасных астероидов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/08/15/0001291926/phas_jpl_960.preview.jpg)
12.08.2013
Are asteroids dangerous? Some are, but the likelihood of a dangerous asteroid striking the Earth during any given year is low. Because some past mass extinction events have been linked to asteroid impacts, however, humanity has made it a priority to find and catalog those asteroids that may one day affect life on Earth.
![Облака Юпитера с борта Новых Горизонтов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/10/24/0001254320/jupiterclouds_newhorizons_900.preview.jpg)
23.10.2011
The New Horizons spacecraft took some stunning images of Jupiter on its way out to Pluto. Famous for its Great Red Spot, Jupiter is also known for its regular, equatorial cloud bands, visible through even modest sized telescopes.
![Астероиды рядом с Землёй](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/10/03/0001254006/592714main_neo20110929-crop.preview.jpg)
1.10.2011
Though the sizes are not to scale, the Sun and planets of the inner solar system are shown in this illustration, where each red dot represents an asteroid. New results from NEOWISE, the infrared...
![Астероиды вдалеке](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/03/07/0001250262/asteroidstreak_hst_900.preview.jpg)
6.03.2011
Rocks from space hit Earth every day. The larger the rock, though, the less often Earth is struck. Many kilograms of space dust pitter to Earth daily. Larger bits appear initially as a bright meteor. Baseball-sized rocks and ice-balls streak through our atmosphere daily, most evaporating quickly to nothing.
![Исследование кометных хвостов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/07/0001217373/hb97_orman_big.preview.jpg)
13.04.2000
Comets are known for their tails. In the spring of 1997 and 1996 Comet Hale-Bopp (above) and Comet Hyakutake gave us stunning examples as they passed near the Sun. These extremely active comets were...
![НаноПарус-Д](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/01/28/0001249487/NanoSailD900.preview.jpg)
28.01.2011
Featured in this artist's illustration, NASA's NanoSail-D finally unfurled a very thin, 10 square meter reflective sail on January 20th, becoming the first solar sail spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Often considered...
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