Tiny fragments of a 4-billion-year-old asteroid reveal its history
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
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Solar System’s Ancient Magnetic Field Found Thanks To Tiny Grain From Asteroid Ryugu
Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...
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Tiny fragments of a 4-billion-year-old asteroid reveal its history
Asteroid Ryugu as seen by Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft, which returned a sample of the ancient asteroid to Earth in 2020. Credit: ISAS/JAXA. In June 2018, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission reached ...
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Asteroid grains shed light on the outer solar system's origins
Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...
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Ryugu Surprises Scientists Again: New Clues Reveal Asteroid’s Birth Near Jupiter
Credit: JAXA Samples from asteroid Ryugu have once again surprised scientists, challenging previous ideas about how carbon-rich asteroids form. Since the Hayabusa 2 probe delivered Ryugu’s samples to ...
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Japan's Hayabusa2 successfully deploys two rovers on the surface of an asteroid
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