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

[GERALD FLAHERTY]

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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>> 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
>> 
>> 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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