The japanese probe (Hayabusa means "falcon" in japanese), has become the first human made object to collect samples from an asteroid. It fired a projectile into the surface of the asteroid, and collected some of the material thus formed

The probe will land in the australian outback in june 2007

Full story here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4467676.stm)

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Looks like their bird's got a "busted wing" of sorts...

Probe Appears Damaged After Asteroid Landing (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs27.1nov27,1,3935844.story?coll=la-headlines-world)

Japanese spacecraft shaky after touchdown on asteroid (http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArti cle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128768374120&path=!nationworld&s=1037645509161)

Hope it's nothing terminal.

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Like its "mini-me" that first tried,,,, it got busted

then the bigger bird got busted at the last moment

Hydrogen peroxide explosions.... the asteroid most probably had a thin layer of H2O2 ice which decomposed when either space craft touched the surface........

Hydrogen peroxide explosions.... the asteroid most probably had a thin layer of H2O2 ice which decomposed when either space craft touched the surface........

Great. Here we go with your ridiculous pseudoscience again. Better turn cover and run before we expose you here as well.

Expose me, LOL

you fool.

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Like its "mini-me" that first tried,,,, it got busted

then the bigger bird got busted at the last moment

Huh ?

Care to try rephrasing that in non-internal dialogue type musings... or whatever.

Hydrogen peroxide explosions...

I was thinking plain old collision damage myself.

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