Alien Asteroid (1) – Arrival

Image: Estelle Greenwood OK, so you’ve got this idea for a Sci-Fi movie: Scene one: A lonely Arizona astronomer locates a small asteroid. He finds that it is going to collide with Earth within hours. Scene two: Across the globe, frantic astronomers launch a desperate attempt to find out as much as they can about…

Gold Dust

The asteroid Itokawa from which the Hayabusa spacecraft has successfully returned sample material to Earth (Image: JAXA) As you may remember, a couple of weeks back, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that, after all, the Hayabusa spacecraft had collected extraterrestrial particles from the asteroid Itokawa. This came as a bit of a shock…