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A groundbreaking study recently published in the Planetary Science Journalhas raised the possibility that asteroids Bennu, ...
A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...
A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...
A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...
The nearly-kilometer-long 162173 Ryugu asteroid had a sample brought back by JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission, and the findings can reveal new insights on the birth of the solar system.
Experts say asteroid 162173 Ryugu has a remarkably high organic matter content It is a rubble-pile asteroid made up of pieces of rock clumped together by gravity ...
Image of Ryugu taken by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft in 2018. Credit: JAXA/wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Just over a year ago, material from the Japanese Hayabusa 2 mission to Asteroid (162173) Ryugu arrived ...
Last week, an event happened that’s been four years in the making. Back in 2014, JAXA, Japan’s space agency, launched Hayabusa2, an unmanned probe designed to study asteroid 162173 Ryugu, which was ...
Journal Reference: Hitoshi Miura, Eizo Nakamura, Tak Kunihiro. The Asteroid 162173 Ryugu: a Cometary Origin. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022; 925 (2): L15 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac4bd5 ...
Brian May's video message on a stereo image of the Ryugu asteroid that JAXA's Hayabusa 2 probe reached, is shown at the JAXA Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science in Sagamihara, Kanagawa ...