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unusual facts about Eugene Merle Shoemaker


Eugene Merle Shoemaker

Shoemaker died on July 18, 1997 during one such expedition following a head on car accident while on the Tanami Road northwest of Alice Springs, Australia.


10739 Lowman

10739 Lowman (1988 JB1) is a Main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Eugene M. and Carolyn S. Shoemaker on Mary 12, 1988 and named after canopy ecologist Margaret D. Lowman.

3199 Nefertiti

3199 Nefertiti (1982 RA) is a near-Earth Amor asteroid discovered on September 13, 1982 by husband and wife team Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Palomar.

NEAR Shoemaker

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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