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Artist impression of asteroid Itokawa

author: Ron Miller/Novapix

reference: a-ast99-93530

Image Size 300 DPI: 45 * 31 cm

25143 Itokawa is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was the first asteroid to be the target of a sample return mission, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa, and the smallest asteroid photographed by a spacecraft.

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ASTEROID - ASTRONOMY - ILLUSTRATION - ITOKAWA -