Word: overshoot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stray shells," as the Israelis originally claimed. As Van Kappen told TIME last week, "When I went there, I believed the Israeli army: a few shells had just overshot. I was there only 10 minutes when I knew I was in deep trouble. This was not a simple overshoot." Nevertheless, the Israelis, who have contradicted themselves several times in an effort to explain how the atrocity occurred, insist that the report is grossly unfair. They say the attack was not deliberate and attribute the shelling of the U.N. compound to a combination of map-reading error and differing muzzle velocities...
...only a camera but also a laser-based radar system to map Eros' surface in detail, three different spectrometers to analyze the asteroid's chemical composition, and a magnetometer to gauge its magnetic field. The ship itself is an instrument of sorts. On its first approach, NEAR will deliberately overshoot Eros to see how much the asteroid's gravity slows it down and thus how massive Eros really...