>a four-year $100 million >mission >to attempt to capture a total of one gram of surface
Do the Japanese know, that they could buy the stuff for a few bucks per kilo on ebay? Do the collectors, who complain that 2-8$ for a regolith breccia is a rip-off, know, that the Japanese spend 100 millions for it? Buckleboo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 5:46 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Ambitious Mission Hopes to Return Bits of Asteroid(Hayabusa) > > http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0508/22hayabusa/ > > Ambitious mission hopes to return bits of asteroid > BY STEPHEN CLARK > SPACEFLIGHT NOW > August 22, 2005 > > Slowly pulling alongside a space rock the size of several typical city > blocks, a Japanese probe is preparing to begin scooping the first dusty > samples of material from the surface of an asteroid this fall for an > eventual return to Earth. > > Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft is halfway through a four-year $100 million > mission to chase down a small celestial target, retrieve pieces of its > rocky crust, and return them safely to Earth in a capsule designed to > survive the intense heat as it enters the atmosphere and parachutes to a > safe landing. ...... ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
