Before It Arrived in Orbit About Eros, the NEAR Spacecraft

question 70

Multiple Choice

Before it arrived in orbit about Eros, the NEAR spacecraft also flew past:

• A)Venus.
• B)asteroid Mathilde.
• C)Comet Wild.
• D)Mars.
• E)Comet Halley.

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