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Space/Science » in reply to re: Hayabusa events

Doesn't look good for a second attempt.

100 km away?

Don't hold your breath.
Crossed fingers ain't going to do it.
They'll have to maneuver Hayabusa dangerously fast; use up much of their precious remaining fuel; and probably
fail to collect a sample cause of probable flawed software on Hayabusa.

Nice try, JAXA, but at least you left a target marker on the asteroid surface, and took
unprecedented close-up images [17 -10 meters?] from an asteroid.
Oh....They also have established bulk density for that asteroid and obtained surface mineralogical data
from its suite of instruments.

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