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Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
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Carl Gustav Witt
German astronomer (1866–1946)
Carl Gustav Witt was a German astronomer and discoverer of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
433 Eros
Near-Earth asteroid
433 Eros is a stony asteroid of the Amor group, and the first discovered, and second-largest near-Earth object. It has an elongated shape and a volume-equivalent diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers. Visited by the NEAR Shoemaker space probe in 1998, it became the first…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Near-Earth object
Small Solar System body with an orbit that can bring it close to Earth
A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance. This definition applies to the object's orbit around the Sun, rather than its current position, thus an object…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)