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Looking Skyward: Sampling an Asteroid, and China Explores the Moon

CAI | By John Basile
Published December 10, 2020 at 1:21 PM EST
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The Japanese space agency has returned samples of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth. Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket discusses this and China's mission to the moon with CAI's John Basile.  

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John Basile
John Basile is the local host of All Things Considered weekday afternoons and a reporter.
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