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Long-awaited asteroid sample lands in US
The Philippine Star|September 26, 2023
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert on Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
Long-awaited asteroid sample lands in US

In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 100,000 kilometers out.

The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid.

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