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Science 19 December 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5346, pp. 2070 - 2071
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5346.2070
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Perspectives

Also see the archival list of Enhanced Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: New Views of Asteroids

Erik Asphaug

NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission will enter orbit around an asteroid in 1999, thus enabling detailed study of these peculiar objects. In his Perspective, Asphaug describes the current state of understanding of asteroids, and in particular discusses results published in the same issue by Veverka et al. and Yeomans et al. reporting on a flyby encounter between NEAR and the main-belt asteroid Mathilde.

The author is at the SETI Institute/NASA, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: asphaug{at}cosmic.arc.nasa.gov

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Science Consultants, Fictional Films, and Scientific Practice.
D. A. Kirby (2003)
Social Studies of Science 33, 231-268
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