Newslink: Pow! Japan's Hayabusa2 Bombs Asteroid Ryugu to Make a Crater (Photo)

Asteroids have pummeled Earth for billions of years, and now Earth has finally struck back.

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft slammed a copper cannonball into the 3,000-foot-wide (900 meters) asteroid Ryugu last night (April 4), in an effort to blast out a crater that the probe can study in detail over the coming weeks and months.

https://www.space.com/hayabusa2-bombs-asteroid-ryugu-photo.html