Japan is at it again with yet another mission to ample asteroids with its Hayabusa 2 craft sometime in 2014.
The mission will focus on Asteroid 1999 JU3, a chunk of floating rock that is 920 meters (~3,018 feet) long.
Expected to arrive at the asteroid by mid 2018, the Hayabusa 2 will hopefully sample the rocks while carrying out other experiments before leaving at the end of 2019 for a return to Earth.
Perhaps borrowing its name from the Apollo 11 mission that first landed on the moon, hayabusa is Japanese for 'falcon'.
Cheers,
Andrew Joseph
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