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Welcome home, Hayabusa!
Posted By Emily Lakdawalla
2010/06/13 09:18 CDT
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At 13:51 UTC, the Hayabusa spacecraft -- having traveled to an asteroid and back, surviving countless challenges -- broke up into a fiery meteor over the midnight, midwinter Australian sky.

Wakayama University / animation by Emily Lakdawalla
Hayabusa lights up the Australian sky
In ten screen caps from a Web camera feed run by Wakayama University, the Hayabusa spacecraft ends its seven-year mission by burning up over Australian skies.It's a day both triumphant and sad. Many, many congratulations to the #Hayabusa team!! I will keep Tweeting news as I get it!
Here's the whole video -- the fireball's about 3 minutes in:
And here's an amazing shot from Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper:
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