It was an astroid where there was a landing
The largest asteroid, Ceres, is in the asteroid belt.
a rather large asteroid
An asteroid is a single piece of rock, whereas an asteroid belt is an area that contains millions of individual asteroids.
The main asteroid belt is actually called the asteroid belt - pretty dull really.
Mars is not in the asteroid belt. The Asteroid Belt is between Mars and Jupiter.
Masaaki Itokawa was born in 1974.
Hideo Itokawa was born in 1912.
Hideo Itokawa died in 1999.
There have been at least two spacecraft to land on asteroids. The first was NASA's NEAR spacecraft which landed on the asteroid Eros. Later Japan's Hayabusaspacecraft landed on the asteroid Itokawa.
No existing spacecraft do this. Virtually all information is transmitted back to Earth.As of 2017, there are only two spacecraft that have performed "sample return" missions:- the Stardust Mission to comet Wild-2 (1999-2005), by NASA- the Hayabusa Mission to asteroid 25143 Itokawa (2003-2010), by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The largest asteroid, Ceres, is in the asteroid belt.
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That's right; Ceres is the largest asteroid.
asteroid
The asteroid missed the Earth's atmosphere by inches.We will begin asteroid mining soon.
If there is an atmosphere, the light will gradually dim as the asteroid approaches the asteroid.
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