If collection is confirmed, the first asteroid internal material sample
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Young-seop = A capsule separated from the Japanese asteroid probe’Hayabusa 2’has landed on Earth, Kyodo News reported on the 6th.
The Japan Aerospace Research and Development Organization (JAXA) announced that the capsule of Hayabusa2, which appears to contain the internal material of the asteroid Ryugu, will land in the desert in southern Australia on the same day and recover in the morning.
The capsule, which was separated from outer space about 220,000 kilometers from Earth in the afternoon of the previous day, entered the atmosphere as a’fireball’ at a speed of 12 kilometers per second in the early morning and landed in the Umera Weapons Experiment Station in Australia.
JAXA will immediately transport the capsules to a nearby facility to ensure that samples of the asteroid’s internal material are properly contained.
If confirmed, it will be the first sample of human asteroid’s internal material. Academia expects that it can be used in research on the origin of life and the evolutionary process of the solar system.
Japan’s second asteroid probe Hayabusa2 was launched on December 3, 2014 on a rocket H2A (unit 26) jointly developed by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Last July, he approached the asteroid Ryugu, about 340 million km away from Earth, and succeeded in collecting internal material after creating a puddle with metal bullets. In November of the same year, he left Ryugu and headed for Earth.
Hayabusa 2’s flight distance reaches 5 billion km in 6 years. Hayabusa 2, with its capsule removed, is expected to fly 10 billion kilometers over the next 11 years.
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