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Extraterrestrial dust reveals asteroid’s past and future
Dust that slipped into Japan's Hayabusa probe when it touched down on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005 pieces together its past and foretells its bleak future
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Dust that slipped into Japan's Hayabusa probe when it touched down on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005 pieces together its past and foretells its bleak future
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is set to go into orbit around the first of two asteroids that, ironically, are the main stumbling blocks to predicting the solar system's fate