Hayabusa capsule analysis

Hayabusa capsule analysis

SAPPORO, Japan - Reporters visit Hokkaido University in Sapporo, northern Japan, to view samples brought back from the asteroid Itokawa by the unmanned Japanese space probe Hayabusa on March 1, 2011. A total of 13 institutes and eight teams have taken part in the project to analyze the samples. Hayabusa was launched in May 2003 and landed on the asteroid in September 2005. It returned to Earth while burning out upon reentry into atmosphere in June 2010 and the capsule containing the samples was recovered in a desert in southern Australia. (Kyodo)

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