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Anniversary of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft Launch in 1996. 

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The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honour of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, is a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year. The mission succeeded in closing in with the asteroid and orbited several times around it, finally terminating by touching down on the asteroid on 12 February 2001.
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15th Anniversary (1996), Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft Launch
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