[NormsRevenge]

The 548-metre long asteroid, '25143 Itokawa', is seen nearly 300 million km (186 million miles) from earth in this handout picture taken November 20, 2005 by the Japanese unmanned Hayabusa and released by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). A Japanese spacecraft that landed on an asteroid found a ball of rubble held loosely together by its own gravity, unlike other asteroids that have been visited, according to reports from the mission published on Thursday. (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/Handout/Reuters)

[taxesareforever]

taking several measurements before landing briefly on the orbiting gravel pile.

I was wondering where we were going to get our gravel from in the future.

[TheWasteLand]

That ball is actually the egg of...Godzilla!!!!

[Tinman93]

Wonder if they found any "space peanuts"?

[SunkenCiv]

Itokawa Image on September 10
ISAS / JAXA | September 11, 2005
Posted on 09/11/2005 2:18:47 PM EDT by snowsislander
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482387/posts

Japan's Hayabusa Spacecraft Lands Successfully on Asteroid
Space.com | 11/23/2005 | Chisaki Watanabe
Posted on 11/23/2005 10:26:09 AM EST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1527382/posts

[bobdsmith]

500 yards (metres)

"Cannot cast from type 'yards' to type 'metres'"