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Ryugu
ORBITS:
Sun
SMALL CELESTIAL BODY
A dark asteroid with samples on Earth.
Discover the asteroid sampled by Hayabusa2 to investigate primitive Solar System material, then explore its place in the Solar System on the SPACE-di interactive map.
naif:
20162173
Reference material: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory · JAXA · 3D render credits
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Ryugu: exploring our Solar System’s small worlds…
Ryugu is a small body in the Solar System, our region of space within the universe. The Sun is the star at the centre of this system. Explore its story and place in our planetary neighbourhood, then find it on the interactive 3D space map.
Ryugu is a carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid visited by Hayabusa2. The mission collected samples and returned them to Earth, revealing primitive material altered by water and space weathering.