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China's Chang'e-2 a success

Chang'e-2, China's second lunar probe has been a huge success and is now the smallest man-made asteroid in the solar system, according to a leading scientist.
The lunar probe, launched on Oct. 1, 2010, has fulfilled its mission and made worthwhile achievements, said Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's Lunar Exploration Project, on Sunday.
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China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, was 100 million km into deep space in July, the longest journey of ant Chinese spacecraft, a senior engineer said Thursday.
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Chinese Space Probe Flies by Asteroid Toutatis

China's space probe Chang'e-2 has successfully conducted a manoeuvre in which it flew by the asteroid Toutatis, about seven million km away from the Earth.
Travelling in deep space, Chang'e-2 made the flyby on Dec. 13 at 16:30:09 Beijing Time (08:30"09 GMT), the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) announced on Saturday.
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Chang'E 2 imaging of Toutatis succeeded beyond my expectations!

The Chang'E 2 mission flyby of Toutatis succeeded in acquiring images. Oh my goodness, did they succeed. This is awesome. 
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The Chang'E 2 spacecraft will fly within a few hundred kilometres of Asteroid 4179 Toutatis at ~08:27 UT, 13th December, 2012. 
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Asteroid 4179 Toutatis' upcoming encounters with Earth and Chang'E 2

Near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis will be passing within 7 million kilometers of Earth on December 12. It's visited us several times before, with a close pass every four years in December.
This particular close approach by Toutatis is extra-special, because Chang'E 2 (China's erstwhile lunar orbiter) is on its way to a flyby, with a close approach on December 13.
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The CE-2 in April, has left the L2 [orbit] to investigate an asteroid; a close rendezvous with an asteroid is expected in January next year.
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Ed ~ The target possibly Asteroid 4179 Toutatis

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China releases "world's highest resolution" lunar images

China today released a set of "world's highest resolution" lunar images taken by its second moon orbiter, Chang'e-2, as it braces to launch its next mission to land a rover to explore its surface.
China's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) today published a set of full coverage map of the Moon and its images with a resolution of seven meters captured by Chang'e-2.
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China moon mission reaches deep space



China's second lunar probe has reached an orbit one million miles from Earth for an additional mission of deep space exploration.



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