Historic Japanese Asteroid Data Amaze Researchers
Credit: JAXA ARTIST'S CONCEPT
Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft that landed twice on the asteroid Itokawa found it to be a "rubble pile" of 4.5-billon-year-old planetary debris that loosely coalesced only about 10 million years ago, rather than a much older intact body like previous asteroids visited. This means researchers discovered...
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