It is a capsule that was shot to Earth by the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft.
The probe picked up the piece of asteroid Ryugu in February 2019 after a small pellet of 5 grams had fired on the surface. More than six months earlier, the spacecraft had arrived at the asteroid some 300 million kilometers from Earth, after a journey of nearly four years.
As the capsule passed through the atmosphere today, a fireball was seen from the space station ISS, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi tweeted.
“It was a beautiful fireball,” Yuichi Tsuda, who leads the Hayabusa-2 mission, told Reuters news agency. “I’ve been waiting for this day for six years.”
Joy in JAXA HQ at the capsule’s successful return:
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