Itokawa articles
Deeper dives into Itokawa, sourced from NASA, JPL and the scientific literature.
Hayabusa: the comeback mission that brought home the first asteroid sample
A solar flare, failed reaction wheels, a fuel leak and a lost mini-lander — and how JAXA still got a capsule of Itokawa dust to Australia.
Read →Itokawa, the “sea otter” rubble pile
Why a 535-meter asteroid looks like two pieces stuck together, and what its boulders and missing craters reveal.
Read →What Itokawa's dust told us about meteorites — and water
How 1,500 tiny grains linked the most common meteorites to S-type asteroids and revealed surprising water.
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