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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
· 3mo ago
It's a day of fab asteroid news! 🤩 Image drop from yesterday's Japanese Space Agency JAXA high-speed close flyby of asteroid #Torifune (~450m across). This is the extension mission of #Hayabusa2, after its successful 2020 asteroid-sample collection from Ryugu. Next stop: another asteroid in 2031 🤩🔭🧪 RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ok3ms3dzop7gcwejp7lswhpi/post/3mpxgtaogo22w
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans (@astroroyalscot.bsky.social)

🤩 image drop from Chinese Space Agency asteroid sample return mission #Tianwen-2 (Heavenly Questions-2)! It's now orbiting Kamoʻoalewa, just 18m across, looking for a place to land, drill, & return 100g back to Earth to see if this is a missing piece of the moon. Then it goes on to a comet 😮🧪🔭 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago
Asteroid Torifune captured by Hayabusa2 https://www.jaxa.jp/press/2026/07/20260706-3_j.html #Torifune #Hayabusa2 #space #science #news #astrodon
JAXA | 小惑星探査機「はやぶさ２」が取得した小惑星「トリフネ」の画像
JAXA | 宇宙航空研究開発機構

JAXA | 小惑星探査機「はやぶさ２」が取得した小惑星「トリフネ」の画像

「小惑星探査機「はやぶさ２」が取得した小惑星「トリフネ」の画像」を掲載しています。 -宇宙航空研究開発機構 JAXA（ジャクサ）は、宇宙航空分野の基礎研究から開発・利用に至るまで一貫して行う機関です。

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Daniel Fischer @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
· 3mo ago
In 6 hours - at 6:00 UTC - a webcast (with commentary in Japanese) at https://www.youtube.com/live/tl8CoHvky4I will cover the #Hayabusa2 visit to #asteroid (98943) #Torifune. See also https://x.com/haya2_jaxa/status/2073388791822532727 for unresolved approach images, https://www.monitormyplanet.com/posts/5707 for a prediction of the rotation state during the encounter, https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2026/06/20260609-1_e.html for its importance, https://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/topics/20260703_direction/index.html for where the asteroid is in the sky and https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/japanese-probe-set-for-super-close-flyby-on-july-5-were-going-to-discover-another-beast-to-put-in-the-zoo-of-asteroids and https://astropics.bookbright.co.jp/hayabusa2-torifune-flyby for preview articles.

小惑星探査機「はやぶさ2」による小惑星トリフネ・フライバイのライブ中継

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Where are we now? @wawn@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago

2026-06-27 15:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-06-20)

WHERE IS HAYABUSA2♯?

  • Barycentric speed: 35.61 km/s (-0.44 km/s)
  • Torifune flyby in: 7 days

🪨 Relative to Torifune

  • Distance (km): 3,596,589.90 km (-3,438,873.40 km)
  • Distance (AU): 0.02 (-0.02)
  • Light travel time: 0 min 12.00 s (-11.47 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth

  • Distance (km): 102,873,508.99 km (-7,698,929.88 km)
  • Distance (AU): 0.69 (-0.05)
  • Light travel time: 5 min 43.16 s (-25.68 s)

#Hayabusa2 #Torifune

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