Japan’s new asteroid hunting initiation

The Japanese space scientists have revealed the hunting for space investigation which is going to launch this year itself for the quarry of the celestial body.

The initiative named as Hayabusa-2 is going to toss into the space for the long four year voyage to the asteroid -named 1999JU3. The time it reaches to the asteroid somewhere in 2018 it is going to launch a powerful gun that is going to fire a metal billet at the asteroid’s barren crust  and then it will collect the material which comes out from the cannon blast. If the plan works with full expectation the particles of the asteroid will come to Earth in the year 2020.

In a press conference the project leader at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hitoshi Kuninaka said that his team is working very hard to make all the possibilities happen for this long voyage. He also said that he is very happy that the asteroid probe has just come to an end and very few work is remaining for the final journey. The company has also send an asteroid explorer earlier which came back to earth in 2010 with dust samples after a long seven year journey and its name was Hayabusa.

The spherical 1999JU3 asteroid, which is a kilometer across, contains significantly more organic matter and water than the potato-shaped rock previously studied by the original Hayabusa. This is going to help in solving the mysteries of the solar system and its 4.6 billion years ago origin. Also the scientists at JAXA said that the new Hayabusa-2 is based on the earlier work of the first model that was only able to get the dust particles which have been altered by the various forms of energy in the space in its long journey.

 The scientists say that after all the shortcomings like the communication breakage and the damages to the motors it was still the most successful project in the field of science. The whole project has added a feather into the hat of the Japan and there were several feature films that got inspired from the project. The scientists are hoping that this will also be a great success in the space and will provide the information that will be used for the  study.