How to pronounce“itokawa”in English

like this is a itokawa uh taken in a close-up taken by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa so asteroid even continue to collide today just a couple

less than one milligram of dust from Itokawa was discovered in its collection module, a truly tiny specimen, but nevertheless, the first successful asteroid sample return in history.

their sights on the asteroid itokawa and the spacecraft given this task was named

Minerva which had its own goals to image itokawa and take readings of its temperature while Minerva's work would happen only once it reached idokawa

This became more clear when the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft visited the asteroid Itokawa, and saw what can only be described as a jumbled mess.

Part of the difficulty with the Hayabusa mission was with the size of Itokawa itself.

The probe was finally able to touch down and attempt a sample retrieval on Itokawa for 30 minutes.