Hayabusa: The Artificial Meteor Launched From An Asteroid

After we retrieved samples of the moon, it was quite a while before we could land on anything else and bring bits of it back home.

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Sources:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/hayabusa
https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/missions/spacecraft/past/hayabusa.html
https://global.jaxa.jp/article/special/hayabusa_sp3/index_e.html
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/hayabusa/in-depth/
https://global.jaxa.jp/article/special/hayabusareturn/watanabe01_e.html
https://global.jaxa.jp/article/special/hayabusa/yoshimitsu_e.html
https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/topics/002154.html
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article/64/1/11/2898246

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_asteroid_(25143)_Itokawa_(eso1405b).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hayabusa_IAC_2010.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hayabusa-Minerva1.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hayabusa-Minerva2.JPG
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/close-up-view-of-the-solar-flares-on-the-surface-of-the-stock-footage/1283534509?adppopup=true
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_asteroid_(25143)_Itokawa.ogv
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hayabusa_hover.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hayabusa(Muses-C)_sampling.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Replica_of_Hayabusa_capsule_at_JAXA_i.jpg
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/683515
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/large-planetoid-royalty-free-image/177031259?adppopup=true
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonid_Meteor.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hayabusa_reentry_from_Ames_Research_2010-06-13.ogv
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/features/2010/hayabusa.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hayabusa_atmospheric_reentry_(close-up).ogv