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Old November 15th 05, 10:34 PM
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Default Minerva lost in space, Hayabusa still to land

Hayabusa is still set to attempt landings on asteroid Itokawa on Nov.
19 and Nov. 25, according to JAXA, even though the sub-probe Minerva
failed to make its landing.

The AP report is at
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ap_051113_probe_lost.html or at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051114/ap_on_sc/japan_asteroid

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