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Japanese scientists thrilled with asteroid dust collected from probe – The New Daily
Samples of dust collected by a Japanese space probe from an asteroid 300 million kilometres from earth are better than scientists hoped for.
Samples of dust collected by a Japanese space probe from an asteroid 300 million kilometres from Earth are better than hoped for, with one researcher saying he was lost for words when they finally opened the capsule.
The samples, the climax of a six-year space odyssey to the Ryugu asteroid by the space probe Hayabusa2, arrived in Japan last week but researchers did not know for sure until this week if they had actually gotten anything.
“We were aiming for 100 milligrams or more, and we definitely…
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