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GIF Animation:

    Experimental demo

Images

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Asteroid sizes compared Mathilde & Wash. DC Illust. by Pat Rawlings
Deimos (photo) Mathilde (artist's conception) Spacecraft by Eros
(artist's conception)
Rendezvous geometry NEAR, Earth, Eros, and Sun
(artist's conception)		 Science Payload
Phobos (photo) Spectrum of Instruments Small publicity graphic
Large publicity graphic Asteroid Gaspra as seen by Galileo Comet Halley's tail
Comet Halley's nucleus Meteorite photograph Small picture of NEAR launch
Big picture of NEAR launch Trajectory Relative Sizes of Asteroids
Eros and NEAR (by Pat Rawlings) Spacecraft before launch Spacecraft after launch

Video: The following are QuickTime movies (MOV files)
Asteroid impacting the Earth (animation)
(low resolution (322K) high resolution(1,458K) 		Launch (actual footage)
low resolution (853K) high resolution(2,088K)
Orbiting Eros (animation)
low resolution (544K) high resolution(1,325K) 		Orbiting Eros (animation by Cornell University)
low resolution (93K) high resolution(186K)
Solar panels deploying (animation)
low resolution (533K) high resolution(1,628K) 		  "Mathilde Encounter"

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