StereoEros
24.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Naden'te svoi krasno-golubye ochki i unesites' k asteroidu 433 Eros, na 260 millionov km! Asteroid Eros obrashaetsya vokrug Solnca s periodom 1.8 zemnyh goda. Ego gabarity ravny 40 x 14 x 14 km, poverhnost' ego volnoobrazna i useyana kraterami, valunami i zhelobami.

Gigantskaya vyboina na Erose
21.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Asteroid Eros tait v sebe nekotorye zagadki. Avtomaticheskii apparat NEAR (apparat dlya izucheniya asteroidov, sblizhayushihsya s Zemlei) nachal kruiz okolo etogo 30-kilometrovogo kosmicheskogo bulyzhnika na proshloi nedele. Poetomu na Zemlyu stali nepreryvno peredavat'sya novye izobrazheniya.

Eros s orbity
16.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

14 fevralya korabl' NEAR stal pervym iskusstvennym sputnikom asteroida. NEAR byl uvlechen slaboi gravitaciei etogo 36-kilometrovogo bulyzhnika, obladayushego formoi tufli. Segodnya na kartinke pokazan pervyi snimok, kotoryi sdelali kamery korablya, kogda tot podletel k asteroidu 433 Eros na 360 km. Na snimke razlichimy detali razmerom 30 metrov.

Neozhidannaya valentinka. Ot asteroida
14.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Mozhet byt', Luna zavlekaet nashi serdca, no eto ne ostanavlivaet asteroid ot togo, chtoby ne poslat' nam valentinki. V pyatnicu, na udivlenie vsem, korabl' NEAR, prednaznachennyi dlya sblizheniya s asteroidom 433 Eros, sfotografiroval vpadinu, imeyushuyu formu serdca.

Vstrecha Erosa s NEAR
10.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Posle togo, kak korabl' NEAR sovershil nezaplanirovannyi ranee vitok vokrug Solnca on napravilsya k asteroidu 433 Eros so skorost'yu 32 km v chas. Na nastoyashii moment korabl' priblizilsya uzhe primerno na rasstoyanie 3200 km, sobiraetsya priblizitsya eshe na 320 km k 14 fevralya, Dnyu Svyatogo Valentina.

NEAR i asteroid Eros
5.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

23 fevralya 1998 goda korabl' NEAR (angl. abbreviatura ot "Vstrechi s asteroidami, proletayushimi blizko k Zemle") proletal mimo asteroida 433 Eros. Avtomaticheskii korabl' dolzhen byl pritormozit' i poletat' vokrug Erosa. Odnako proizoshlo nepredvidennoe vyklyuchenie glavnogo dvigatelya, i realizaciya plana ne udalas'. V nastoyashee vremya NEAR vnov' sblizhaetsya s etim asteroidom.

Samyi bol'shoi bulyzhnik
2.01.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Slabo svetyasheesya pyatnyshko v centre kartinki - eto samyi bol'shoi bulyzhnik. Po razmeram on prevyshaet vse izvestnye asteroidy, sputniki i yadra komet. On bol'she lyuboi drugoi kamennoi planety. (Nikto ne znaet real'nyh razmerov kamennyh yader...