433 Eros on 23 December 1998. The gravitational perturbation on. At 11:00 a.m. Eastern time, navigation data from the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft indicates NEAR has achieved orbit around asteroid 433 Eros.. Explanation: Orbiting the Sun between Mars and Earth, asteroid 433 Eros was visited by the robot spacecraft NEAR-Shoemaker in 2000 February.. Asteroid Ida and Small Satellite Dactyl -- Wallpaper · Asteroids Wallpaper · - MySpace.com Asteroid Wallpaper · Asteroid 433 Eros 127 miles from NASA's NEAR spacecraft. The ultimate goal

of the mission was to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in January, 1999, and study the High-resolution images of the surface of asteroid 433 Eros

revealed evidence of downslope coherence Memory movement