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A Japanese unmanned spacecraft has landed on an asteroid 340 million kilometers from Earth today.
The Hayabusa 2 arrived at a 900-meter asteroid called Ryujo before 8 am (2300 GMT Thursday), according to the Japanese space exploration agency.
The vehicle began to land on the surface of the asteroid around 1 pm Thursday at a height of 20 km.
The vehicle departed the Tanigashima Space Center in southern Japan in December 2014 and arrived near the asteroid in June.
The agency said the vehicle is expected to return by the end of 2020 with samples of the asteroid.
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