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Japan has launched Muses-C space probe

Kagoshima, Japan - It will reach "1998 Sf-36 " asteroid about 300 million km far from the Earth

From the space base of Kagoshima, in Southern Japan, Tokyo has yesterday launched a carrier with Muses-C space probe. Probe would have to reach "1998 Sf-36" asteroid about 300 million km far from the Earth, it have to pick up a rock fragment and to bring back it, within four years. "Asteroids - said Junichiro Kawaguchi, Japanese institute for aerospace sciences mission's director -has considered as...

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Rome, Italy, 05/09/2003 12:52
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