We Just Shot an Asteroid... for Science! | Space News

The Hayabusa2 spacecraft fired a bullet into an asteroid and Neptune officially has 14 moons!

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Sources:
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190220e_TDPoint/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/25143-itokawa/in-depth/
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47293317
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/what-to-expect-hayabusa2.html
https://www.asteroidmission.org/asteroid-operations/
http://caesar.cornell.edu/mission/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0909-9
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/tiny-neptune-moon-spotted-by-hubble-may-have-broken-from-larger-moon
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-23318301
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Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hayabusa_hover.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11754
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:.Animation_of_Hayabusa2_orbit.gif
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/topics/20180725je/index_e.html
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20180904e/
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190225e_TD1_W1image/
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190214e_Experiment/
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/topics/20180711bje/index_e.html
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=20286&button=recent
https://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/16456721122/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2289/neptunes-moon-hippocamp/
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/flat-linear-hippocampus-illustration-gm613054696-105742793
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1904c/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/tiny-neptune-moon-spotted-by-hubble-may-have-broken-from-larger-moon
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neptune_Full.jpg
https://spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1904a/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proteus_(Voyager_2).jpg
https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA00317.html
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1330b/
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/large-planetoid-gm177031259-19917196