A Japanese probe flew 400 metres (1,312 feet) from a near-Earth asteroid this month, marking the closest approach ever recorded in such a mission, the space agency has said. The fridge-sized Hayabusa2 skimmed asteroid Torifune on July 5, in a flyby mission that demonstrated the ability to deflect a potentially dangerous space rock away from […]
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