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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captures remarkable photo of a two-headed asteroid 62 million miles away

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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captures remarkable photo of a two-headed asteroid 62 million miles away
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A Japanese spacecraft has gotten up close and personal with yet another asteroid, beaming home stunning new imagery of the distant space rock.On Sunday (July 5), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2 probe performed a close flyby of asteroid Torifune, a 1,475-foot (450-meter) space rock currently traveling through space some 62 million miles (100 million kilometers) from Earth. It was expected to be one of the closest-ever high-speed passes a spacecraft has had with an astero

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