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	Eleanor F. Helin - Biocrawler
		Eleanor Francis Helin is an American astronomer, principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
		She has discovered (or been the lead discoverer of) more than 800 asteroids, including notably the first two Aten asteroids 2062 Aten and 2100 Ra-Shalom; the Apollo asteroids 4660 Nereus, 4769 Castalia and others; various Amor asteroids; three Trojan asteroids including 3240 Laocoon; and also 9969 Braille.
		Helin's accomplishments, she has received NASA's Exceptional Service Medal.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Eleanor_Helin (444 words)

	Exploratorium Magazine: Space: page 6
		Eleanor Helin discusses our options if faced with this extremely remote possibility.
		Helin has been a planetary scientist and astronomer for more than thirty years.
		To learn more about Dr. Helin, see her biography at the Women in Science and Technology website.
	www.exploratorium.edu /exploring/space/space6.html (397 words)

	Dr. Helin Interview
		Asteroid Researcher, Eleanor F. Helin, Ph.D. The following interview was conducted with Dr. Eleanor Helin of JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena) on March 26, 1998.
		Helin had taken telescope images of this asteroid in 1990 during her photographic asteroid program.
		We are grateful that Dr. Helin would take the time from her busy schedule to talk with us and answer the questions from our students.
	library.thinkquest.org /3806/helininterview.htm (2811 words)

	Eleanor F. Helin - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eleanor Francis Helin is an American astronomer, who retired in 2002.
		She has discovered or co-discovered 863 asteroids, including notably the first two Aten asteroids 2062 Aten and 2100 Ra-Shalom; the Apollo asteroids 4660 Nereus, 4769 Castalia and others; various Amor asteroids; three Trojan asteroids including 3240 Laocoon; and also 9969 Braille.
		Helin in recognition of her leadership of the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEAT) program.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/E._F._Helin (509 words)

	NewStandard: 7/30/97
		None is an immediate threat, says Eleanor F. Helin of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but so far only 10 percent of the sky has been searched by the project.
		Helin said 99 asteroids or comets now are known to pose what astronomers consider a danger to the Earth.
		Helin, who has searched 25 years for asteroids, said Earth's only protection from asteroids is to find them well before they hit, then send up rocket-bombs to shatter them or divert the orbit.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/07-97/07-31-97/a05wn027.htm (562 words)

	Eleanor F. Helin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eleanor Francis Helin is an American astronomer, who retired in 2002.
		Asteroid 3267 Glo is named for her ("Glo" is Helin's nickname).
		Helin in recognition of her leadership of the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEAT) program.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eleanor_F._Helin (473 words)

	Asteroid finder named to hall of fame (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Helin will be honored at ceremonies to be held Thursday, June 25, at 7 p.m., during the WITI 1998 Technology Summit in Santa Clara, CA.
		Another of her asteroid discoveries, KD 1992, was recently named the new target for a flyby by to be conducted in July 1999 by the NASA/JPL Deep Space 1 spacecraft, due for launch this November.
		Helin is a recipient of NASA's Exceptional Service Medal and the 1997 JPL Award for Excellence for her leadership of the NEAT program.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /releases/98/helinawd.html (366 words)

	Caltech Press Release, 11/18/1996, Eleanor Helin, DuBridge
		The asteroid, formerly known as 1990 WA, was discovered exactly six years ago tonight by Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory planetary astronomer Eleanor F. Helin at Caltech's Palomar Observatory.
		"This is a member of a class of asteroids that are normally named, by tradition, for gods or goddesses," says Helin, who earned the right to choose the asteroid's name when she discovered it on an 18-inch Schmidt camera at Palomar.
		Helin, who has searched for near-Earth asteroids for 25 years, has been working to get the object's exact location tonight and to compile some other interesting facts.
	pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR11751-text.html (475 words)

	WITI - Hall of Fame
		Eleanor F. Helin has been active in planetary science and astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for over three decades.
		Helin's accomplishments, she has received NASA's Exceptional Service Medal and asteroid (3267) Helin was named for her by the International Astronomical Union.
		Helin concentrated on a new, upgraded search program using electronic sensors on a large aperture telescope.
	www.witi.com /center/witimuseum/halloffame/1998/ehelin.php (421 words)

	H - Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Science Reference Services, Library of Congress)
		Dixon, Robert T. [Dr. Eleanor Helin] In his Dynamic astronomy.
		Helin, Eleanor F. Untitled remarks [on her search for near-earth asteroids] In Liller, William.
		Helin initiated the Palomar Planet-crossing Asteroid Survey in Jan. 1973 and has pursued it actively ever since.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/womenastro/womenastro-h1.html (990 words)

	Exploratorium Magazine: Space: page 3
		But the announcement also prompted Eleanor Helin and her colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Lab to search their database of images.
		Eleanor F. Helin explains that while globe-threatening impacts come only once in tens of millions of years, locally catastrophic impacts can happen several times each century on earth.
		Despite what happens in the Hollywood movies, the chances of a globe-threatening asteroid or comet hitting the earth are increasingly small.
	www.exploratorium.edu /exploring/space/space3.html (399 words)

	7 Asteroids With Astronauts' Names, Space Agency Aims For Memorial That Will Last For 'Millennia' - CBS News
		The plan was approved by the International Astronomical Union and announced on Wednesday by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Minor Planet Center, the official clearinghouse for asteroid data.
		The named asteroids were discovered by former JPL astronomer Eleanor F. Helin in 2001 using the Palomar Observatory near San Diego.
		The objects range in size from 3.1 miles to 4.3 miles in diameter.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/08/07/tech/printable567067.shtml (571 words)

	TA e-circular
		Telephone: (0256)471074 Int:+44256471074 Telex: 9312111261 Answerback: TA G JANET BOXES: GMH at UK.AC.CAM.ASTRONOMY.STARLINK or GUYH at UK.AC.SUSSEX.CLUSTER TELECOM GOLD: 10074:MIK2885 PRESTEL 256471074 ------------------------------------------------------------------- COMET HELIN-LAWRENCE (1991l) Eleanor F. Helin and Kenneth J. Lawrence report their discovery of a comet, as follows: 1991 UT R.A. (1950) Decl.
		m1 Observer Mar. 17.40191 13 32 10.92 + 8 52 13.4 15 Helin 17.42483 13 32 08.94 + 8 52 15.7 " 19.69248 13 29 19.55 + 8 56 41.2 15 McNaught E.
		Comet image extremely dense, with a tail fanning to the north-northeast.
	www.theastronomer.org /tacirc/1991/E0498.txt (171 words)

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