Prospects For Hayabusa Returning Asteroid Sample To Earth In Question

Japan's ambitious plans to be the first country to collect and return an asteroid sample to Earth took a grave turn last weekend, with the loss of Hayabusa's Minerva probe, which failed to make contact with Itokawa's surface, for the all-important scoop.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news8251.html">Prospects For Hayabusa Returning Asteroid Sample To Earth In Question</a></p> <p> Japan's ambitious plans to be the first country to collect and return an asteroid sample to Earth took a grave turn last weekend, with the loss of Hayabusa's Minerva probe, which failed to make contact with Itokawa's surface, for the all-important scoop. </p>