Floating pile of rubble a pristine record of solar system's history

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The Itokawa asteroid and its surface (R)
The Itokawa asteroid and its surface (R)

A small, near-Earth asteroid named Itokawa is just a pile of floating rubble, probably created from the breakup of an ancient planet, according to a University of Michigan researcher was part of the Japanese space mission Hayabusa.


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