Japan's space agency has attempted to bomb an asteroid around 195 million miles away from Earth. This was done to be able to create a crater and to get samples of the asteroid to find the origin of the solar system. The explosive device was packed with a plastic explosive to make a crater. After the device has exploded, it is meant to go back to the crater, get a sample of the rock, and travel back to Earth with a sample to be studied. There was also a small camera that was placed on the asteroid which was hoped to capture the moment of the explosion. This is the second attempted trip to the asteroid to collect a sample of the rock within the asteroid. In February, it succesfully captured a sample of the rock and is taking the 195 million mile trip back to Earth.
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How do you think this will affect the science behind asteroids?
- I think this will help scientists further understanding of asteroids and how they form. I also think that it will change how the solar system is taught in schools.
Do you think it will be able to make it back to Earth safely with no information lost?
- I think it would be hard for it to make it back without anything being lost, but if the technology was perfect then it could make it back. I think it just depends on how well the technology was developed and how much time and thought they put into this.
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Good job overall Jaicee. Be sure to capitialize key words in the title and also be sure that your opening sentence is summarized better as it is very similar to the CNN article.
The affects behind the science of asteroids will help scientist to better understand the asteroids and how they form and when they form and how old/ long ago they formed. to better help us in a time of need. I think that it is a stretch but it is possible.
1.) I think this will help exponentially by allowing scientists to observe exactly what the asteroid is and how they form. I also think that it could help teachers explain the solar system in schools.
2.) I think the possibility of it to come back to Earth with absolutely nothing lost is a very hard thing to determine there are many factors like how straight the line is back to Earth or how well the technology was developed and many more... I don't think I could give a number for the possibility of it coming back with all of its information.
I think it will help them find more out about how stuff in the solar system was formed and maybe even more about how earth was formed. I don't think it will get everything it collected back safely but if they have the best technology they might have a chance to get a good portion of it back.
Scientist are finding new things everyday and due to this sample of an asteroid, it will give them a better understanding of space and how are world really works. Many things have gone wrong with sending things up into space, but those aren't reasons why we shouldn't believe that it will return safely with all the information we need.
I think this will help scientists find out how far the asteroids and how they are formed. I think it will make it to Earth safely like it did in February.
The sample of the astroid would help scientists understand them because they have something that they have never had before which is an actually astroid to do test on. I think it will make it back because there is no way that they would have bombed the astroid if they thought the machine wouldn't make it back.
I agree with you. I think it would help scientists to furthur understand asteroids and how they form. I don't really think it would affect how the entire solar system is taught in schools but maybe. I think it would be too hard to make it back to Earth safely.
I do think that it would be taught differently since they were looking for the origin of the solar system and if they got the information they were looking for, it could change the information that is being taught. I do also think that it would be really hard to make it back safely but it is possible that it could happen.
I think this will change how we see them. The solar system might even be taught different in schools. I think it will be very hard to make it back to Earth without having any information lost. It depends how much information there is and how much technology is used.
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