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Japan Releases Snowman-Like Asteroid Image After Flyby
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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captured rare close-up images of near-Earth asteroid Torifune, revealing a snowman-like shape made of two joined lobes. The fridge-sized spacecraft skimmed the asteroid on Sunday in a mission demonstrating the ability to deflect a potentially dangerous space rock away from Earth.
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