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The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker) renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

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