TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese scientists were trying to track a space probe almost 300 million km from earth on Sunday, on a mission to bring back the world's first samples from an asteroid.
The unmanned Hayabusa probe -- the name means "falcon" in Japanese -- had been due to land on the surface of the 548-metre-long asteroid 25143 Itokawa for just one second after a voyage of two and a half years.
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