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To: BenLurkin

Cool mission. There was also landing on a comet a few years ago IIRC.


2 posted on 08/24/2018 3:19:42 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: Dagnabitt
Which landing? The US had a mission to one to observe/shadow, and at the end of mission/fuel, the craft touched down on it. Somewhere along the line, after the accidental vehicular death of Gene Shoemaker, the probe was named after him.

In the original Hayabusa mission, it touched down, but JAXA neglected to take into account the [actual?] amount of force the scoop exerted when it did its thing, so the craft got pushed off. Yes, it did get some material, but the fine folks at JAXA held their collective breaths until the return.

3 posted on 08/24/2018 3:42:07 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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