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    162173 Ryugu (provisional designation 1999 JU3) is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It measures approximately...
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    on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused in space with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018. It surveyed the asteroid for a year and a half and took...
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    surface of the moon Titan. In 2023, uracil was observed in a sample from 162173 Ryugu, a near-Earth asteroid, with no exposure to Earth's biosphere, giving...
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  • Queen of Serpents The Wife from the Dragon Palace 162173 Ryugu, an asteroid named after Ryūgū-jō Ryugu Planitia, a smooth plain on Triton Tango hudoki or...
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  • September 2018, first two MINERVA-II rovers successfully landed on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. The third MINERVA-II rover malfunctioned before deployment from the...
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    List (179806) 2002 TD66 2002 LINEAR List 54509 YORP 2000 LINEAR List 162173 Ryugu 1999 LINEAR List (137108) 1999 AN10 1999 LINEAR List 101955 Bennu 1999...
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    and crewed missions; the comet Wild 2 and the asteroids 25143 Itokawa, 162173 Ryugu, and 101955 Bennu have been visited by robotic spacecraft which returned...
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  • absorption band in the light reflecting from such bodies. Asteroid (162173) Ryugu, the target of the Hayabusa 2 mission, is expected to be hydrated where...
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    that has been delivered by the JAXA Hayabusa2 spacecraft to asteroid (162173) Ryugu in 2018. He is one of two lead scientists (Co Principal Investigator)...
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    (Washington, DC). List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft 162173 Ryugu, an asteroid being studied by JAXA concurrent with the NASA mission to...
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    Hayabusa, which visited 25143 Itokawa in 2010, and Hayabusa2, which visited 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. Overall management, engineering, and navigation for the...
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    162173 Ryugu (2018) and 101955 Bennu (2020). Surface samples have been collected from the Moon (returned 1969), 25143 Itokawa (returned 2010), 162173...
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    are candidate sources for the near Earth asteroids 101955 Bennu and 162173 Ryugu. At present, Clarissa has not been visited by any spacecraft. As of 1991...
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    (9.9 lb) shaped charge was used on the Hayabusa2 mission on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. The spacecraft dropped the explosive device onto the asteroid and detonated...
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    Yuichi; Yoshikawa, Makoto. "MINERVA-II1: Successful image capture, landing on Ryugu and hop!". hayabusa2.jaxa.jp. JAXA. Retrieved 24 September 2018. "Hayabusa-2:...
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  • Okazaki, Ryuji (2023-03-21). "Uracil in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu". Nature Communications. 14 (1): 1292. Bibcode:2023NatCo..14.1292O....
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    during a flyby in December 2012. The 980 m (3,220 ft) Apollo asteroid 162173 Ryugu was explored from June 2018 until November 2019 by JAXA's Hayabusa2 space...
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    device called an "impactor" from space onto the surface of asteroid 162173 Ryugu, in order to collect debris released by the explosion. The mission was...
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    presenting a scenario of formation of the asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, visited by NASA OSIRIS-REx and JAXA Hayabusa2 probes, respectively...
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  • surface of the comet. The MASCOT lander from Hayabusa2 landed on asteroid 162173 Ryugu in a similar manner. Instead of attempting to slowly dissipate the incoming...
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  • boulder on an extraterrestrial body. So far the term has been used for: 162173 Ryugu § Saxa 101955 Bennu § IAU named features Dimorphos § Surface Saxum is...
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  • Urashima Tarō Tokoyo is identified with Mount Penglai. The Asteroid 162173 Ryugu has two fossae named after each one. This world Yorishiro Shimenawa Bai...
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    Dinkinesh's shape resembles the near-Earth asteroids 101955 Bennu and 162173 Ryugu, which are known to have rubble pile interior structures consisting of...
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    returned from the Moon, the comet Wild 2, and the asteroids 25143 Itokawa, 162173 Ryugu, and 101955 Bennu. In 1981, a proposal for an asteroid mission was submitted...
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    after initial detection of fluid inclusions. Sutter's Mill Meteorite (162173) Ryugu In the recent years, fluid inclusion research has been extensively applied...
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    (March 19, 2019). "The geomorphology, color, and thermal properties of Ryugu: Implications for parent-body processes". Science. 364 (6437): eaaw0422...
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  • Observatory) Oumuamua 21 September 2018 First operational rover on an asteroid (162173 Ryugu). Japan (JAXA) Hayabusa2 1 December 2018 First recorded sounds from Mars...
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    Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 returned samples from asteroids 25143 Itokawa and 162173 Ryugu respectively by landing within the Woomera Prohibited Area. Several launch...
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    Hayabusa2 in 2014; mission abandoned after ion thruster failure 2014-076D 162173 Ryugu Hayabusa2 JAXA 27 June 2018 – 13 November 2019 sample return success...
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  • Success Heweliusz, Second Polish scientific satellite  Japan Hayabusa2 162173 Ryugu Success Hayabusa2, second Japanese asteroid sample return spacecraft...
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