Health Editor’s Note: We at VT have been keeping up on the Hayabusa2 project and the craft has returned to earth with asteroid surface material and subsurface material as it completed its 6-year mission to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft will now begin an 11-year astronomical mission. In 2031, 27 years after launch and 11 years after the original mission ended, the spacecraft will approach 1998 KY26. Exciting news!…Carol
Hayabusa2’s Mission Returns Asteroid Sample to Earth
By Philip Whitehouse/NasaSpaceFlight.com
Hayabusa2’s sample return capsule has landed in Woomera, Australia, today, 5 December — or 6 December local time at Woomera. The exact landing location is now being determined, but a tweet from the mission’s official account says an estimated location of landing has been identified and teams are en route to recover it.
The craft returned not just asteroid surface material, but subsurface material (at first) as well, and will be met by Japanese scientists after completing its six-year mission to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu.
The main Hayabusa2 spacecraft meanwhile used its remaining propellant to start an extended, 11-year astronomical mission.
Spacecraft and mission profile
Hayabusa2 is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) operated mission with a dry mass of 490 kg. It launched with four small rovers, an impactor, and five target markers on 3 December 2014 on an H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center and rendezvoused with the asteroid Ryugu on 27 June 2018.
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Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues.
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The analysis should be interesting.
The proof is in the pudding. Some Black Goo would be nice. Otherwise, Stony or Fe/Ni.
Well, let’s hope the return capsule is tightly sealed and doesn’t leaks. The last thing we need this 2020 is a sort alien coronavirus who was resident at the asteroid now coming out from capsule and running away around the world
As in the movie Evolution. A real laugher and worth a watch.
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