Hayabusa Re-entry over Australia

The Asteroid Explorer "HAYABUSA" successfully separated its capsule at 7:51 p.m. on June 13 (Japan Standard Time), and re-entered the atmosphere to complete its mission operation at 10:51 p.m. A team of Astronomers from NASA and the JAXA team where in central Australia to capture the re-entry on film. For more on the Hayabusa mission go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4CeVVhpdW8

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[TacairStationHQ]

Hay, now that is a fascinating demonstration of highly positive mankind advances! Simply spectacular. Good luck to spaceship Earth in this continued pursuit! Great upload, FM76!

[FieldMajor76]

@TacairStationHQ thx Tac, I like the space ship Earth thought. An iron and granite voyager ship with a boiler room. Amidst the solar winds we sail.

[NCAstronut]

Great video thanks for shareing this find with us.

[FieldMajor76]

@NCAstronut anytime friend :0)

[coeurenlair01]

not only beautiful!

Thank you for uploading!

[FieldMajor76]

@coeurenlair0 sure thing, cheers!!

[KurdstanPlanetarium]

Visisted a future Meteor and returned like a meteor...awsome achievements by the Japanese...hope we get valuable data from that encounter to help Planet Earth's future battles against asteroids impacts and save humanity from annahilations

[QuantumMechanic1a]

Our planet has grown a nervous system in the sense that we are each individual neurons of some huger nervous system.

[brucenunn37]

Breath taken...!! Wow..

[mazchile2304]

AH CABRON!

[KurdstanPlanetarium]

@QuantumMechanic1a Deep Impact if did one thing positive was showing to the Public a graphic demonstration of what happens if Earth is hit by any large impacting body Comets or Asteroids

[QuantumMechanic1a]

@KurdstanPlanetarium

Ye the irony just kills me too. I haven’t even seen that movie either.

[TacairStationHQ]

@FieldMajor76

"...An iron and granite voyager ship with a boiler room..."

Good one, FM76. :)

Hope you get some clear fields of view.

[KurdstanPlanetarium]

@QuantumMechanic1a you are right as far as Normal big Asteroids concerned but the danger always comes from the tiny ones thats hard to detect until its too late..

there is a program is called (Sky Watch) and designed to look for such trouble some tiny ones, but it lacks proper funding to make it function properly and discover about the 2000 Earth Crossing Asteroids out there...its Ironic that making some movies like Deep Impact...etc cost more than funding a proper program like this!

[Trimotech]

I don't know how to appreciate you but You've done a good job by uploading the video.

[QuantumMechanic1a]

@KurdstanPlanetarium

Some times I like to say that our planet has grown a nervous system, and that nervous system is us. For the first time in five plus billion years, if and when the planet is endangered by one of these asteroids, it’s possible now that the planet can take some action against it. We are actually capable now of looking far enough into the future so that we and no other species might be able to save the planet from such a catastrophe.