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Mathilde Encounter: Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous

In one of the most successful flybys of all time, the NEAR spacecraft passed within 1200 km of asteroid 253 Mathilde on June 27. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has created a website to document this event. The site contains information on the NEAR mission objectives, science goals, and Mathilde itself. It also features images of the asteroid, a flyby simulation, and an MPEG...

https://www.if.ufrgs.br/ast/solar/portug/mathilde.htm