Asteroid Itokawa Sample Return

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft has brought home to Earth tiny pieces of near-Earth asteroid Itokawa. In today’s story from Science@NASA, a NASA specialist on the Hayabusa science team describes the nail-biting sample return and hints at new results from the ongoing analysis.

URL: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/30dec_samplereturn/