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Keywords: NEAR project, asteroid, spacecraft, Eros
![Полный вперед "Дип Спейс-1"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199932/ds1_jpl.preview.jpg)
22.09.2001
At full throttle the Deep Space 1 spacecraft's innovative ion drive produces about 1/50th of a pound of thrust ... a force so great that it would just about hold up a piece of paper on planet Earth! Still, powered by solar arrays ion propulsion systems can run continuously.
![Далекий космос 1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/13/0001199177/deepspace1_jpl_big.preview.gif)
3.12.1998
Going gently into the night, Deep Space 1's ion drive has been running smoothly since it was restarted on November 24. How powerful is this high-tech spacecraft's ion propulsion system? At full...
![Солнечный парус](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/23/0001199369/solarsail_msfc.preview.jpg)
21.08.2004
Could solar sailing become a future Olympic sport? Nearly 400 years ago astronomer Johannes Kepler observed comet tails blown by a solar breeze and suggested that vessels might likewise navigate through space using appropriately fashioned sails.
![Гравитационный тягач](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/11/10/0001209381/gravtug_durda_smallc.preview.jpg)
10.11.2005
How would you change the course of an Earth-threatening asteroid? One idea - a massive spacecraft that uses gravity as a towline - is illustrated in this dramatic artist's view of a gravitational tractor in action.
![Астероид и галактика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/04/05/0001221455/vv2m81_long.preview.jpg)
5.04.2007
Apollo class asteroid 2006 VV2 flashed past planet Earth in late March, approaching to within 3.4 million kilometers or about 8.8 times the Earth-Moon distance. Due to the proximity of its orbit to Earth and its estimated diameter of over 1 kilometer, 2006 VV2 is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid.
![Квавар: большой астероид на окраинах солнечной системы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/11/0001180132/quaoar_gps.preview.gif)
9.10.2002
Asteroids almost as large as planets are still being discovered in our own Solar System. Recently an asteroid more than half the size of Pluto was found orbiting at a distance only a little further than the Solar System's most distant planet.
![Пролетая над западной оконечностью Эроса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/10/26/0001217159/movie2_near.preview.gif)
17.04.2000
The robot spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker continues to orbit asteroid Eros. This condensed 40-minute long time-lapse sequence taken last month shows what it looks like to pass within 200 kilometers of Eros' west end. The north pole of the rotating mountain is toward the bottom of the picture.
![Астероиды вокруг Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/04/18/0001205228/asteroids_hst.preview.jpg)
17.04.2005
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.
![Ультима Туле от "Новых Горизонтов"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/01/29/0001455853/UltimaThule_NewHorizonsAppere_1000.preview.jpg)
29.01.2019
How do distant asteroids differ from those near the Sun? To help find out, NASA sent the robotic New Horizons spacecraft past the classical Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, the farthest asteroid yet visited by a human spacecraft.
![Вращающийся астероид Бенну от аппарата OSIRIS REx](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/11/14/0001444841/ast.preview.jpg)
13.11.2018
Could this close-by asteroid ever hit the Earth? Eventually yes -- but probably not for a very long time, even though the asteroid is expected to pass inside the orbit of the Moon next century.
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