Monday, October 11, 2010

Hayabusa May Have Retrieved Extraterrestrial Samples

Hayabusa May Have Retrieved Extraterrestrial Samples
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.

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