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between 7:00 and 9:30 pm Central Time for maintenance. |  | NEAR - Near-Earth Asteroid 
                        Rendezvous NEAR was launched in 1996 and in 2000 
                        became the first mission to orbit an asteroid, the large 
                        near-Earth asteroid Eros. It remained in orbit for a 
                        year and landed on Eros in 2001. Most data sets from the NEAR mission 
                        are archived at the 
                        PDS Planetary 
                        Plasma Interactions (PPI) Node and the 
                        PDS 
                        Small Bodies Node. The Geosciences Node has one 
                        NEAR data set: 
						
                        NEAR Laser Rangefinder Data |