Thursday, November 24, 2005

Japanese Hayabusa Probe to Try Landing on Asteroid Twice

An AP newswire article by Chisaki Watanabe, via ABC News, reports that:

A Japanese space probe will make another attempt at landing on an asteroid on Saturday after it successfully landed and then departed from its surface over the weekend, officials said Thursday.

The Hayabusa probe was heading back toward the asteroid Itokawa and expected to land on the asteroid around 7 a.m. Saturday. Wakabayashi, a JAXA official.

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