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Asteroid probe's tiny payload yields big result

DIGEST SPACE

years since Japan's Hayabusa2 jettisoned a small capsule to eagerly waiting scientists in the desert of South Australia (see Issue 88), researchers have been picking through its contents, keen to unearth the secrets of our early solar

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