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Asteroid Sample Lands on LLNL
August 23, 2022
LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release:

No need to worry, it is just a very small piece for scientific study.

In December 2014, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the spacecraft Hayabusa2 to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. In December 2020, when the sample-return capsule successfully landed safely back on Earth with pristine pieces of Ryugu that it had col . . .

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