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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captures remarkable photo of a two-headed asteroid 62 million miles away (www.space.com)
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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    [–] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Hold up... this lil thing went all the way to an asteroid, brought a sample back to EARTH? And then just went back out to see more asteroids???

    That's so cool!!!

    According to the article, after this it's going to orbit and land on an asteroid that's only 11m wide?

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    • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    These double-lobed asteroids always look so cool. Like, not that long ago if this image was in a science fiction movie I would have said ehhhh unlikely but here we are looking at them

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    [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    I knew all those space photos were fake! You can see the strings holding them up!

    For real though, its crazy how we can get messages and pictures back from SUCH a far away distance. Fuck yeah science!

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    [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Spaceballs!

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Mmmm...peanuts...

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Asteroideez nuts

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't this a few years old already?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    On Sunday (July 5), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2 probe performed a close flyby of asteroid Torifune

    same ship, new rock

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    Interesting. It strongly reminds me of the other one. Do they always look like this?

    Edit: Well, not always. Sometimes they also look like squares. Seems like the lack of gravity gives them much more interesting shapes than boring old spherical planets:

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