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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
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teacher Shooting bullets at Ryugu

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teacher A tag-and-run on Bennu

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teacher Landing on a rubber duck

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teacher Crashing on purpose to save Earth

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Stardust Catchers

teacher Stardust Catchers

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teacher Life's code is floating in the deep, deep space! (Oh-oh!) / Ryugu's dust brought the letters to our place! (Yeah, yeah!)

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A tag-and-run on Bennu

teacher A tag-and-run on Bennu

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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.

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Shooting bullets at Ryugu

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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.

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Quiz

Which NASA spacecraft returned a capsule of dust from asteroid Bennu in September 2023?

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Gossip

Which robotic space mission sounds the most daring?

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Quiz

What surprising discovery did scientists find inside the asteroid dust returned by Hayabusa2?

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Quiz

Which space agency successfully landed the Philae probe on Comet 67P in 2014?

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Quiz

How did the Hayabusa2 spacecraft loosen dust on asteroid Ryugu to collect its sample?

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Quiz

What was the name of the diamond-shaped asteroid sampled by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission?

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Quiz

What was the main objective of NASA's DART mission in 2022?

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Quiz

What was the name of the small asteroid moonlet that the DART spacecraft crashed into?

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Quiz

What unusual object did Comet 67P closely resemble in shape when photographed by Rosetta?

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