Updates Rebirth of the Immortal Falcon: JAXA Hayabusa 2 updates

MaverickSawyer · Apr 25, 2019

Notebook said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47818460

Yep, they hit it all right. And it was a bigger crater than they'd expected...
http://gizmodo.com/new-photos-show-the-surprisingly-big-crater-blasted-int-1834298147

So once again, science arrives with a "BANG!" and a "Huh.", rather than a "BANG!" and a "Eureka!" :lol:

Notebook · Sep 19, 2019

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/S...eroid_dust_helps_model_planetary_defence_test

19 September 2019
A trio of dust grains retrieved from an asteroid by Japan’s Hayabusa mission have helped model a grand-scale planetary defence experiment that could one day save Earth.
Diamond-tipped nanoindenter
A paper published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics scientific journal this week reports on ‘nanoindenter’ testing of a trio of asteroid grains returned by Hayabusa from the dusty face of the Itokawa asteroid as well as samples from the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013.