They're making plans in the Australian outback for the re-entry of Hayabusa, the plucky Japanese satellite that bounced off an asteroid, might possibly have brought a piece of it back, and which survived a bunch of technical problems. The satellite controllers even had to re-route the satellite on a return path that took three years longer than planned.
But it's going to come down in Australia in just a few days -- June 13, they hope.
Asteroid probe returns to Australia"Hayabusa will hot-foot its way toward terra firma at well over 26,000 mph (12 kilometers per second). As it plows into Earth's atmosphere and turns into an artificial fireball, that event will last all of a minute."
Ten days to go.
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