433 Eros Asteroid in 3D

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Uploaded by on Aug 8, 2007

Scientists are releasing highly detailed 3-D views of the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros. The images were not captured by a camera, but are the product of over 8 million observations from the NEAR Laser Rangefinder (NLR). The NLR measures heights on Eros' surface by determining the time short pulses of laser light take to travel from the spacecraft to the asteroid and back. NEAR team members use this information to build detailed models of Eros' shape, which in turn help them understand the asteroid's collisional evolution and internal structure. The shape of Eros also provides a context for interpreting images and compositional information.

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  • music please...

  • First a Big Solar Flare Explosion,now this asteroid.....what´s next? Fuck !! I am not going to watch the olympic games in London at this pace!!! Fucking Mayas!!! We will stand and fight,600 feet under......lol

  • What are the odds? Eros is going to hit the Earth and so what? We have atboms,knives,sharp sticks,ballbreakers!!! lol

  • Hi Eros..drop by for a coffee

  • ICE CREAM !!! lol

  • this does not look like just a dirty ice ball to me it looks like a bone from a giant that is going to kick the earth in its pants for all the bad things happening here

  • some say it has more than 200,000 times the gold ever mined on earth

  • the big nugget

  • Eros is a loaded Asteroid so we should welcome it with open arms . I sure hope it lands in my backyard if it is headed for Earth , Waiting Eros....

  • It looks like a warped potato

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