(1)Japan launches asteroid sampling probe

(1)Japan launches asteroid sampling probe

GAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo released by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) shows MUSES-C, the world's first space probe designed to retrieve surface samples from an asteroid, which was launched aboard an M-r rocket from the Kagoshima Space Center in Uchinoura, Kagoshima Prefecture on May 9. If post-launch operations go as planned, MUSES-C will meet asteroid 1998SF36 at 300 million kilometers from Earth in summer 2005 and return home two years later. (Kyodo)

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