EVENT In HISTORY ( Science &Technology).

August 13, 1898 exactly 118 years today. First near-Earth asteroids is found. As one of the larger near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), Eros 433 has played a significant role in history. It was discovered on the same night (13 August 1898) by Gustavo Witt in Berlin and Auguste Char Lois at Nice. Eros was one of the first asteroid to be visited by spacecraft, and first to be orbited and soft-landed on. NASA spacecraft NEAR and shoemaker entered orbit around Eros in 2000, and came to rest on its surface in 2001. Eros is a potential Earth impact or, believed to be larger than the impactor that created the Chicuxulub crater that led to the extinction of dinosaurs.