a piece of the sky
The Japanese probe Hayabusa is within 20 km of its target asteroid, Itokawa. At closest approach, the probe will fire a "bullet" at the asteroid and then scoop up the resulting ejecta with a funnel-like device, returning under a teaspoon's worth of material to Earth when it lands in the Australian outback in June 2007.
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