The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced yesterday that they may have found particles of extra-terrestrial origin in the sample container brought back by the Hayabusa space capsule, which touched down in southern Australia in June after a four-year mission to retrieve a sample from the S-type asteroid 25143 Itokawa, discovered in 2000.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Hayabusa May Have Retrieved Extraterrestrial Samples
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