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Ever wonder what happens when you shoot an asteroid?????Don’t worry, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has you covered????Watch as a bullet strikes the fake asteroid… cool, right!?????JAXA was testing out its method for snatching a sample from the asteroid Ryugu????The idea is the bullet will kick up debris????so the spacecraft Hayabusa2 can suck it up to bring back to Earth ????Hayabusa2 has been surveying the rock and found its surface is covered in gravel ????rather than fine dust like they thought????Even with this change, the bullet test successfully created collection-ready samples??