Many asteroids are not massive enough to cause a strong gravitational pull on a probe or a person.
The asteroid missed the Earth's atmosphere by inches.We will begin asteroid mining soon.
Eros is an asteroid that crosses Mars' orbit. It was the first asteroid to be landed on by human probe.
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the asteroid raced across from Mars to Jupiter
The Galileo probe navigated through the asteroid belt by carefully plotting its trajectory to avoid collisions with asteroids. Mission planners used gravitational assists from planets to adjust Galileo's path and minimize the time spent traveling through the asteroid belt. Additionally, the probe's onboard instruments helped detect and avoid any potential hazards during its journey.
It's an unmanned robotic probe which is capable of performing a landing on a planet, moon, or asteroid autonomously.
The Hayabusa ~ see related link below .
A space probe carrying dust samples from an asteroid
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Despite antenna problems, Galileo conducted the first asteroid flyby, discovered the first asteroid moon, was the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, and launched the first probe into Jupiter's atmosphere.
In 2001, the NEAR-Shoemaker space probe became the first unmanned probe to soft-land on an asteroid, although it was primarily designed to do its studies from orbit. Launched in 1996, it orbited the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros for about a year, and in February 2001 used the last of its propellant to soft-land on the asteroid. Since it was undamaged, it continued to perform surface studies until it was shut down, about two weeks later.
among other things it also observed the near-earth asteroid 1620 geographos and tested some other stuff but it's most famous for being a lunar probe it should not be confused with the citrus fruit, which is delicious (unlike the spacecraft)