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Asteroid Eros

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Asteroid Eros
The Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker spacecraft took these images of asteroid Eros in February 1999. (a) The top
of the figure is the asteroid’s north polar region. Eros’s dimensions are 33 km × 13 km × 13 km (21 mi × 8 mi × 8 mi) and it rotates
every 5¼ h. Its density is 2700 kg/m3, close to the average density of Earth’s crust and twice as dense as asteroid Mathilde
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