04 December 2020
Asteroid sample from Hayabusa2 to land on Earth 6 December
...the surface. Ryugu appears to be a “rubble pile” carbonaceous asteroid that has coalesced from scraps of rock set loose when ... its way to 1998KY26, a nearly spherical sub-kilometre asteroid located between the orbits of Earth and Mars. The spacecraft...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...Mars and Jupiter. Ryugu is a C-type or ‘Carbonaceous’ asteroid, which is a class thought to contain organic ...was declared when Hayabusa2 reached a distance of 20 km from the asteroid. This is designated the ‘home position’ and the default location ...
09 May 2018
First confirmed carbon-rich asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
... of quality,” comments Olivier Hainaut, an ESO astronomer who was not part of the team. “The discovery of a carbonaceous asteroid in the Kuiper Belt is a key verification of one of the fundamental predictions of dynamical models of the early Solar...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
...wealth of resources. Plans to mine the Moon and asteroids are in place, confronting scholars, politicians and space ...that can sit on the head of a pin”. Carbonaceous asteroids like 253 Mathilde are mainly composed of carbon alongside mineral ...
