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- The Hayabusa2 spacecraft of Japan is nearing the earth after a yearlong journey from asteroid Ryugu.
- The asteroid is located at a distance of about 300 million kilometres from the Earth.
- The spacecraft is to reach the earth in Southern Australia carrying precious samples from the asteroid.
- In February 2019, the spacecraft collected surface dust samples from the asteroid Ryugu.
- Later in July 2019, the spacecraft collected underground samples from the asteroid.
- This was the first time in the history of world space underground samples are collected from an asteroid.
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