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Asteroid capsule landing point detected – BBC News
A search is under way for a capsule carrying the first large quantities of rock from an asteroid.
By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website
image captionArtwork: Hayabusa-2 made its way back to Earth after visiting the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu
A recovery team in Australia has detected the landing point of a space capsule bearing the first large quantities of rock from an asteroid.
The capsule, containing material from a space rock called Ryugu, parachuted down near Woomera in South Australia.
The samples were originally collected by a Japanese spacecraft called Hayabusa-2, which spent…
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