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Asteroid
    Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft is returning imagery and data after successfully arriving at its target, asteroid Itokawa, earlier this week. 
Asteroid Ceres May Be a Freshwater Planet 
    For years astronomers have tried to look closely at Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, a nearly opaque target so featureless that scientists could not even be sure of its shape.
Earth Asteroid Bombardment Mystery Solved? 
    Scientists turned planetary detectives say they may have solved a solar system whodunit: What caused a cataclysmic asteroid assault on Earth and neighboring planets some 3.9 billion years ago?
v Final NEAR Shoemaker Descent Images of Eros from 2001 Feb 12 
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l Asteroid Introduction 
    Asteroids are rocky and metallic objects that orbit the Sun but are too small to be considered planets. They are known as minor planets.
l Terrestrial Impact Craters 
    Impact craters are geologic structures formed when a large meteoroid, asteroid or comet smashes into a planet or a satellite.
l Chronology of Space Exploration, Asteroid 
    The primary scientific objective of the Muses-C mission is to collect a surface sample of material from an asteroid and return the sample to Earth for analysis.
l Asteroids in Earth's Solar System 
    Hundreds of thousands of asteroids have been discovered within Earth's solar system.
l Asteroid Summary 
    
v Asteroid 
    An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun.
v Definition 
    The term "asteroid", meaning star-like, was coined in 1802 by Sir William Herschel shortly after Olbers discovered the second one, 2 Pallas, in late March of the same year.
v Asteroid Classification 
    Asteroids are commonly classified into groups based on the characteristics of their orbits and on the details of the spectrum of sunlight they reflect.
v Asteroid Discovery 
    Asteroid discovery methods have drastically improved over the past two centuries.
v Naming Asteroids 
    Newly discovered asteroids are given a provisional designation consisting of the year of discovery and an alphanumeric code, such as 2001 FH.
v Asteroids in Fiction and Film 
    Understandably, most fictional depictions of asteroids focus on their potential risk of striking Earth.
v List of Noteworthy Asteroids 
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_noteworthy_asteroids
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