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beamjockey ([personal profile] beamjockey) wrote2005-11-07 04:48 pm

No Dirt Today from Itokawa

Hayabusa aborted its planned "landing" on asteroid Itokawa. I hope there will be another opportunity to get a surface sample and drop the bouncing Minerva probe.
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Re: hayabusa

[identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com 2005-11-14 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
wonder if it is a coincidence that the space probe shares its name with a Suzuki 170mph motorcycle...

"Hayabusa" means "Dove." I would tend to doubt it, but I guess it's not impossible that someone was thinking of the motorcycle when the spacecraft was named.