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Welcome to the Golden Age of 🪨Asteroid Exploration! 10 missions and 1 event every asteroid fan needs to know (number 6 steals the show!)...

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Humankind's first close encounter with an asteroid in space did not occur until 1991, more than three decades into the space age...

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A decade later came the first asteroid landing, by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker at their end of mission. The spacecraft carried on operating for 16 days after touching down...

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Europe's first time eye-to-eye with an asteroid came in 2008, as ESA's Rosetta comet-chase passed by the Steins asteroid. A second encounter followed in 2010

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Then in 2010 @JAXA's Hayabusa mission overcame grave onboard issues to return the first ever asteroid sample back to Earth...

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In 2020 successor mission Hayabusa2 returned more samples from asteroid Ryugu, and just this weekend passed by another asteroid, Torifune (pictured here).

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Next in 2022, NASA's DART mission impacted asteroid Dimorphos (deliberately!) to divert its orbit around the larger Didymos asteroid. The attempt was a success!

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In 2023 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off the most sizeable asteroid sample yet from asteroid Bennu. Like Hayabusa2, that spacecraft remains active

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Then this weekend, just as Hayabusa2 made its close encounter with Torifune, the China National Space Administration's Tainwen-2 drew close to the tiny 18-m Kamo’oalewa

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Coming next: ESA's Hera mission for Planetary Defence will revist the Dimorphos asteroid impacted by NASA's DART this autumn, to discover what happened to it and sharpen our understanding of the kinetic impact method of planetary defence

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Friday 13 April 2029 is when a once in 7000 year event takes place, as the cruise liner sized Apophis asteroid comes closer to Earth than our geostationary satellites - but ESA's Ramses mission will be flying along with it, and landing CubeSats!

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Due to Apophis's flyby (as well as other milestones including the arrival of NASA's Psyche at its metal-rich asteroid target) 2029 will be the UN Year of Asteroids asteroids2029.org