Ryugu sample analyses show asteroids may have delivered compounds needed to start life on Earth
In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group describes their study of a small sample of material ...
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New Clues to the Formation of Outer Planets from Ryugu's Ancient Grains
What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances hopes to address as an ...
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‘Building blocks of life’ found in soil taken from asteroid Ryugu
JAXA’s research team announced in June 2021 that it would distribute those samples to research institutions across the globe to start a full-scale analysis ... retrieved from Ryugu, in orbit ...
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Hayabusa 2 photos indicate asteroid Ryugu orbited near sun
The asteroid Ryugu used to pass far closer to the sun, even closer than Mercury, an analysis of images shot by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe reveals. The probe snapped the images of the asteroid ...
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Hayabusa-2: Japanese probe likely to have 'bombed' an asteroid
The idea was to create an artificial crater on the object known as Ryugu. If this is successful - and the early indications are positive - the probe will later return to gather samples from the ...
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Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft reaches cosmic 'diamond'
Hayabusa 2 has been travelling toward the space rock Ryugu since launching from the Tanegashima spaceport in 2014. It is on a quest to study the object close-up and deliver rocks and soil from ...