On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:39:18 GMT, Jim Oberg wrote:

for background see:
Japan shoots for a piece of an asteroid

Hayabusa sample-return mission nears critical stage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8131678/

A pretty ambitious project by the Japanese, I'm looking forward to cool
images and keeping my fingers crossed.
Too bad the mission hardly gets any media coverage, I myself didn't even
know about it until now...

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