Hayabusa2 Project Manager Tsuda Yuichi, and ISAS Deputy DG Fujimoto Masaki will join the online panel to discuss sample return missions next Tuesday (11/14) at 9:30pm JST! Come and hear about Hayabusa2 and #OSIRISREx sample collection and analysis! Register for free below:

The final talk in the online series for sample return missions will look at future studies, including plans for the Hayabusa2 & OSIRIS-REx samples, and the up-coming Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. Talk will be held on Tuesday (11/28) 21:30 JST. Register for free below!

The Hayabusa2 spacecraft will flyby asteroid 2001 CC21 in July 2026 🛰️🪨! Can you help us choose a name for this asteroid? You have until May 9, 2024 for suggestions, so there's plenty of time to think! More information on the Hayabusa# website 🔗: hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/2023…

Exactly 5 years ago today, on February 22, 2019 at 07:29:10 JST (onboard time), Hayabusa2 made the first touchdown on asteroid Ryugu during a tense operation! The video was captured by CAM-H and lasted 5 minutes 40 seconds, starting 59s before the final descent (it's sped up 5x)

The Science Museum in London is currently displaying a grain from asteroid #Ryugu! Their new blog looks at how asteroids get their initial designation numbers, and describes how you can name asteroid 2001 CC21 in the Hayabusa2 Extended Mission campaign before we flyby in 2026! 🖊

The deadline for suggesting a name for asteroid 2001 CC21 is tomorrow (May 9: the anniversary of the launch of Hayabusa in 2003 🚀). Please do suggest a good name for this asteroid 🪨. 🔗 hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/2023…

The curation team who are caring for the sample from asteroid Ryugu have started a new account! Please follow them for news.

Will disaster strike on 07/05 🌏? A Japanese manga based on seemingly prophetic dreams has made a chilling prediction that a “great catastrophe” will occur on July 5, 2025. But if such a disaster were to come from space, what can we do? (🧵)

[07/05] 🌏 Many natural disasters are difficult to predict, but large meteorite impacts can be anticipated 🔭 You can check this yourself! Information about close approaches & collision probabilities of celestial bodies can be explored on ESA’s “Risk List” neo.ssa.esa.int/risk-list/

[07/05] 🌏 The ESA Risk List for possible impacts can be sorted by: 🔹 Probability of impact (IP max) 🎲 🔹 Impact date/time of impact in UTC 📅 🔹 Diameter of celestial body in m 🪨📏 To sort by a particular attribute, click the ↑↓ button. Risk List ➡️ neo.ssa.esa.int/risk-list/