I had seen that, only knew about the NEAR landing a while before it happened
and I watched the streaming video of it.  Wasn't easy to get or stay
connected but I saw the whole thing from first manuever to last picture and
beyond.
Having lived on the island between Cape Canaveral (Kennedy) and mainland
Florida during the Moon landing as a kid it brought back memories.  The TV
picture wasn't perfect and of course neither was the compressed video.
Although "dusty", I agree, what I thought was how fractal-like Eros is.
Very much the same from as seen from farther or closer, scattered rock and
smooth, which makes me think that if a picture of the surface were taken on
the surface that it might be gravelly, sandy and dusty.
This is OT I guess but I'm not joined to the p.o-t. group again.

Bob H.

"Ben Birdsey" <cla### [at] mailcom> wrote in message
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>
> I just saw this incredible animation of the Eros asteroid taken by the
> NEAR probe.  It shows a single orbit of the probe around the satellite,
> but the best it shows is the great dusty texture of the surface of the
> asteroid.
>
> Check it out
>
> http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20010205/index.html
>
> Ben
> <><

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