'Minerva' mini-probe asteroid landing has failed

Can anyone compute the actual 'escape velocity' of Itokawa?


"Jim Oberg" wrote
Minerva's mission to land on the asteroid Itokawa has failed.

Disregard my last posted question -- here's the answer:

THE HAYABUSA ASTEROID SAMPLE RETURN MISSION. H. Yano, Dept. of Planetary
Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/Institute of Space and
Astronautical Science (ISAS) 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa,
229-8510, JAPAN

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/am2005/pdf/7030.pdf

"Assuming a bulk density of ordinary chondrites, the surface gravity of
Itokawa is on the order of 10 micro-G, with an

escape velocity = 20 cm/s."



What was a station-keeping spacecraft DOING at that speed?