Comets and asteroids
Chapter 1
Leftovers of cosmic creation
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Chapter 2
Cosmic visitors and Earthly impacts
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Chapter 3
Human missions to touch the stars
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Chapter 4
The future of space rocks
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Comets and asteroids
Ch 3 · Human missions to touch the stars
teacher Life's code is floating in the deep, deep space! (Oh-oh!) / Ryugu's dust brought the letters to our place! (Yeah, yeah!)
Fun Fact
Fluffy asteroid: Asteroid Bennu's surface is so loose that if a person stepped on it, they would sink in like a ball pit.
Glossary
astronaut (noun)
A person trained to travel and perform tasks in a spacecraft. In 2010, President Obama challenged NASA to send astronauts to explore a near-Earth asteroid by 2025.
A person trained to travel and perform tasks in a spacecraft. In 2010, President Obama challenged NASA to send astronauts to explore a near-Earth asteroid by 2025.
Quiz
Which NASA spacecraft returned a capsule of dust from asteroid Bennu in September 2023?
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What surprising discovery did scientists find inside the asteroid dust returned by Hayabusa2?
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How did the Hayabusa2 spacecraft loosen dust on asteroid Ryugu to collect its sample?
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What was the name of the diamond-shaped asteroid sampled by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission?
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What was the name of the small asteroid moonlet that the DART spacecraft crashed into?