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Published online 27 September 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010927-10
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Rock garden on Eros
The surface of the second largest near-Earth asteroid is surprisingly cluttered.
On 12 February this year, the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker mission landed on the asteroid Eros, completing a journey of more than 3 billion kilometres. It discovered a complex miniature world, researchers now reveal1-3.
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