Asteroid Sample Brought Back to Earth Gets a Close-Up Look at Brown
September 28, 2021
September 28, 2021
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 28 (TNSRes) -- Brown University issued the following news release on Sept. 27, 2021:
In December 2020, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft swung by Earth to drop off a cache of rock samples taken from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. Asteroids like Ryugu are thought to represent the ancient building blocks of the solar system, and scientists have been eager to get a closer look at the returned samples.
Last week, the Japanese Aerospace E . . .
In December 2020, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft swung by Earth to drop off a cache of rock samples taken from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. Asteroids like Ryugu are thought to represent the ancient building blocks of the solar system, and scientists have been eager to get a closer look at the returned samples.
Last week, the Japanese Aerospace E . . .