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Japan pulls off one of the closest asteroid flybys ever

Hayabusa2’s next target is barely bigger than the probe itself ...
Smithsonian Magazine

New Images Reveal That This Asteroid Is Actually Two Conjoined Space Rocks. They Form a Peanut-Shaped Object Called a ‘Contact Binary’

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe ...

NASA knows how to deflect an asteroid. Can Japan’s Hayabusa2 pull it off?

Analysts say the Torifune fly-by highlights Tokyo's growing role in global space safety efforts and its 'goodwill science' ...
Digital Journal

NASA: Huge asteroid 2014-YB35 makes close Earth approach Friday

Although, the passage of asteroid 2014-YB35 at a distance of 2.8 million miles is much farther away than the January 6 close approach of asteroid 2004 BL86 at a distance of only 745,000 miles, it is ...
The Manila Times on MSN

Japan space probe skims asteroid in test for planetary defense

TOKYO — A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday, in a test mission for technology that ...