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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which country’s space agency has successfully dropped an explosive on asteroid Ryugu to make crater?
A
China
B
France
C
Japan
D
Germany
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Japan dropped a bomb on an asteroid in the name of science, as it tries to learn more about the history of the solar system.

Detailed explanation-2: -Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission continued its unprecedented explorations today by apparently creating an artificial crater in an asteroid, a space exploration first.

Detailed explanation-3: -TOKYO – The discovery of amino acids in asteroid samples collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 space probe has brought scientists one step closer to knowing the full picture of the origin of life on Earth. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which are essential to all life, along with water.

Detailed explanation-4: -YONAGO, JAPAN-Japan’s Hayabusa mission made history in 2010 for bringing back to Earth the first samples ever collected on an asteroid.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hayabusa, series of Japanese spacecraft that explored asteroids. The first, Hayabusa, studied the asteroid Itokawa and returned a sample container of dust grains to Earth in 2010.

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