The Japanese asteroid probe returns in a blaze of fireJapan’s asteroid probe Hayabusa has crashed back down to Earth and it may contain traces of material from the surface of an asteroid that could collide with us in the future, explains Ben Sandilands.
Asteroid
The earth-asteroid collision that didn’t make headlines
On October 8, a mini-asteroid screamed into the upper atmosphere over the Indonesia and exploded with the force equivalent to two to three times that of the atom bombs that incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
How close will the asteroid Apophis come in 2036?
The asteroid countdown is on.
