More stuff from Outer Space

this time it's dust

[grandpa]

No, I'm not talking about the chaos cloud. The Japanese are about to land a couple of probes on an asteroid, take pictures from the surface, stick a thermometer into a few crevices and stir up some dust to bring back to Earth. The asteroid is named Itokawa, obviously a Japanese asteroid.

astronomers are hoping that this material will provide evidence of the link between asteroids and meteorites

Looking for a link between big rocks and smaller rocks? Here at home we call that link a sledgehammer.

Still, it's all quite interesting in the realm of what we are doing in space. Not that any of will matter after 2014...

The story in it's unblemished form [cooltech.iafrica.com]

[jecasc]

Not that any of will matter after 2014

What will happen in 2014? The sky will fall on our heads?

[Syzygy]

End of the world in 2014 [neo.jpl.nasa.gov]? No chance.

This happens in 2012 [google.co.uk]! Or does it? I think Grandpa [google.co.uk] may know more than he's letting on...

;-)

Syzygy

[ann]

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[grandpa]

It's all over! They lost the probe.

..a can-sized robot lander apparently became lost in space while attempting a practice touch down... "Unfortunately, it appears Minerva did not recognize the surface,"...

Too bad.