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The Hayabusa2 spacecraft is about to drop a chunk of asteroid in the Australian outback – MENAFN.COM
Before most people wake up this Sunday morning, a small space capsule will be dropped off to Earth, landing in Woomera, South Australia. The capsule contains fragments…

(MENAFN – The Conversation) Before most people wake up this Sunday morning, a small space capsule will be dropped off to Earth, landing in Woomera, South Australia. The capsule contains fragments of the surface of a near-Earth-orbit asteroid, Ryugu, collected by the https://global.jaxa.jp/ Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) with the http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/ Hayabusa2 spacecraft last year.
The fragments of rock and dust will tell us a lot about how asteroids form, where they have…
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