[meteorite-list] Hayabusa Returns - Asteroid secrets come down toearth

From: GERALD FLAHERTY <GRF2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:36:16 -0400
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Anita they're upside down cause they're at the bottom of the earth
On Jun 15, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Anita Westlake wrote:

> Is it just me or did it sound like they were having sex while watching the re-entry?
> Anita
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> From: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
> To: Katsu OHTSUKA <ohtsuka at jb3.so-net.ne.jp>; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Sent: Sun, June 13, 2010 11:20:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Hayabusa Returns - Asteroid secrets come down toearth
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPUxTSPN_bQ
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> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:04:02 +0900
>> Von: "Katsu OHTSUKA" <ohtsuka at jb3.so-net.ne.jp>
>> An: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hayabusa Returns - Asteroid secrets come down toearth
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>> The Japanese newspaper (Yomiuri) article with great re-entry bolide shot!
>> is
>> here:
>> http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/news/20100613-OYT1T00818.htm
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>> Katsu OHTSUKA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeff Kuyken" <info at meteorites.com.au>
>> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:33 PM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Hayabusa Returns - Asteroid secrets come down
>> toearth
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>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This first report came through from the Sydney Morning Herald about 20
>>> mins ago.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.smh.com.au/national/asteroid-secrets-come-down-to-earth-20100613-y64j.html
>>>
>>> Asteroid secrets come down to earth DEBORAH SMITH SCIENCE EDITOR
>>>
>>> June 14, 2010
>>>
>>> THE Falcon became a fiery phoenix last night.
>>>
>>> After a seven-year odyssey in space, the unmanned Japanese spacecraft
>>> Hayabusa, or Falcon, burnt up in the atmosphere, making it the first
>> probe
>>> to land on an asteroid and return to Earth.
>>>
>>> But its legacy could live on, perhaps helping protect the planet from
>>> asteroid impacts, if dust from the space rock it visited can be
>> retrieved
>>> from the spacecraft's cargo capsule.
>>>
>>> Advertisement: Story continues belowThe basketball-sized cargo capsule
>> was
>>> released from the spacecraft just before 9pm and was set to land by
>>> parachute at Woomera Prohibited Area about midnight last night. In
>>> preparation for the touch down, the Stuart Highway was blocked from just
>>> south of Coober Pedy to the north of Glendambo.
>>>
>>> Hayabusa was launched in May 2003 and touched down twice in November
>> 2005
>>> on Itokawa, a 540-metre long asteroid about 300 million kilometres away,
>>> twice as far as the Sun.
>>>
>>> Fuel leakages, engine breakdowns and loss of communication delayed its
>>> return by three years. But the Japanese team was able to combine parts
>>> still working on two engines to bring the crippled craft home.
>>>
>>> The Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry, Richard Marles,
>>> said it was a huge technological achievement. ''If you've got any
>>> affection for the little Aussie battler, you've got to love the Hayabusa
>>> spacecraft.''
>>>
>>> The associate executive director of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration
>>> Agency, Yoshiyuki Hasegawa, said yesterday he was nervous but excited
>>> about the return. ''Today is the greatest moment for us.''
>>>
>>> Japanese, NASA and Australian scientists flying in a specially equipped
>>> Douglas DC-8 aircraft were hoping to capture pictures and make
>>> measurements of the re-entry, with the aim of designing better heat
>>> shields for future space probes.
>>>
>>> With the capsule travelling at more than 12 kilometres a second on
>>> re-entry, its carbon heat shield would have experienced temperatures of
>>> more than 2800 degrees, while the gas surrounding the capsule would have
>>> been hotter than the surface of the Sun, at about 7200 degrees.
>>>
>>> The Japanese team will check on the capsule's condition this morning and
>>> Aboriginal landowners will be among the first to see it.
>>>
>>> Understanding asteroids will be necessary if we need to deflect one
>> coming
>>> our way.
>>>
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