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Published online 28 November 2005 |
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| doi:10.1038/news051128-1
Corrected online: 12 December 2005
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Spacecraft makes a grab for asteroid sample
Is it second time lucky for Hayabusa probe?
Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft may have succeeded in its second attempt to collect pieces of a small asteroid. If so, this will be the first time a sample has been collected for return to the Earth from any object in the Solar System apart from the Moon.
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