6/16/2010

asteroid dust in the satellite Hayabusa



This research is expected to be able to unlock secrets of solar system formation and reveals how much risk to Planet Earth asteroid collision.


A Japanese research satellite, Hayabusa, successfully landed back in Australia. Hayabusa on a mission to go home after seven years on an asteroid. Crew researchers bring a unique capsule containing the dust samples from the asteroid.


Before landing with the hit stretch of desert, Hayabusa leaving a trail of fire in the sky like the tail of Australia at midnight Sunday local time (13 / 6). Landing the end of research into the asteroid's closest to the earth, Itogawa, since 2003.


Yesterday morning (14 / 6) Australian defense officials flew to the local Aboriginal people landing site to ensure there are no sacred sites damaged.


Hayabusa means falcon in Japanese. Satellite had landed on an odd-shaped asteroid in 2005. The researchers hope to take samples at the asteroid is a small matter. If research is successful, the findings will be the first time a spacecraft returning to bring an example of a foreign body material back to Earth other than the moon.




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