A recovery team in Australia has found a space capsual

A recovery team in Australia has found a space capsule carrying the first significant quantities of rock from an asteroid. The capsule, containing material from a space rock called Ryugu, parachuted down near Woomera in South Australia. The samples were originally collected by a Japanese spacecraft called Hayabusa-2, which spent more than a year investigating the object. The container detached from Hayabusa-2, later entering the Earth's atmosphere. The official Hayabusa-2 Twitter account reported that the capsule and its parachute had been found at 19:47 GMT. Earlier on Saturday, the capsule was picked up by cameras as a dazzling fireball streaking over Australia's Coober Pedy region. Rocks from an asteroid set for delivery to Earth Asteroid mission exploring a 'rubble pile' Screaming towards Earth at 11km/s, it deployed parachutes to slow its descent. The capsule then began transmitting a beacon with information about its position. The spacecraft touched down on the vast Woomera range, operated by the Royal Australian Air Force. At around 18:07 GMT, the recovering team identified where the capsule had landed. A helicopter, equipped with an antenna to pick up the beacon, took to the air shortly afterwards to hunt for the container.