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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captures remarkable photo of a two-headed asteroid 62 million miles away
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m3t00🌎🇺🇦 midwest.social m3t00@midwest.social
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Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/asteroid-comet-missions/japans-hayabusa2-probe-captures-remarkable-photo-of-a-two-headed-asteroid-62-million-miles-away
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Sibbo sopuli.xyz Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-06
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Isn't this a few years old already?
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m3t00🌎🇺🇦 Moderator m3t00@midwest.social
Joined: 2023-06-02
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Sibbo wrote:
Isn't this a few years old already?

On Sunday (July 5), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2 probe performed a close flyby of asteroid Torifune

same ship, new rock
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Sibbo sopuli.xyz Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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m3t00🌎🇺🇦 wrote:
On Sunday (July 5), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2 probe performed a close flyby of asteroid Torifune same ship, new rock

Interesting. It strongly reminds me of the other one. Do they always look like this?

Edit: Well, not always. Sometimes they also look like squares. Seems like the lack of gravity gives them much more interesting shapes than boring old spherical planets:
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