Still Waters Posted September 27, 2021 #1 Share Posted September 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 Exploration Agency shipped one of the samples—a millimeter-sized fragment from the asteroid's surface—to the laboratory of Brown University planetary scientist Ralph Milliken for analysis. Milliken's lab is one of the first in the U.S. to examine a Ryugu sample so far. https://phys.org/news/2021-09-asteroid-sample-brought-earth-close-up.html Related: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted October 2, 2021 #2 Share Posted October 2, 2021 30 years ago this would have been top news and people excited everywhere. Today people are too busy being triggered to follow such excellent science. It's a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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