JAXA: Some Material Definitely From Asteroid

By Kazuki Shiibashi kkshiibashi@hotmail.com
TOKYO

Japan’s Hayabusa sample-return probe collected and returned material from the asteroid Itokawa in its troubled seven-year mission, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reports.

Analysis of some 1,500 particles of material found in the sample-return canister reveals that “most of them were judged to be of extraterrestrial origin, and definitely from ...

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