SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged Ryugu Sunlight forces tiny asteroids to get rid of their dust bunnies Small asteroid surfaces are dustless, possibly because they're zapped by UV light. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago Ryugu was born an asteroid, became a comet, and died an asteroid Asteroid dates to just after the formation of the solar system itself. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago OSIRIS-REx is now going to go asteroid hopping to the space rock that once threatened Earth Yes, that asteroid. By Elizabeth Rayne | 6 months ago Is Ryugu a dead comet masquerading as an asteroid? The near-Earth object looks like an asteroid but may be an ice-free comet By Phil Plait | 8 months ago Ryugu’s cosmic dust is some of the oldest stuff in the universe When scientists say an asteroid has “some of the most primordial material ever examined,” it’s for real. By Elizabeth Rayne | 10 months ago NASA got a Ryugu sample, and it could be a time capsule of the solar system NASA now has a rare sample from Asteroid Ryugu, and the secrets of the solar system might be hiding in there. By Elizabeth Rayne | 11 months ago Watch as Hayabusa2 blasts a 17.6-meter-wide crater into an asteroid By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Guy walks out to his front yard, finds a rock from the birth of the solar system By Elizabeth Rayne | 2 years ago Ryugu’s history has been… weird By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth By Phil Plait | 3 years ago Load More
Sunlight forces tiny asteroids to get rid of their dust bunnies Small asteroid surfaces are dustless, possibly because they're zapped by UV light. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago
Ryugu was born an asteroid, became a comet, and died an asteroid Asteroid dates to just after the formation of the solar system itself. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
OSIRIS-REx is now going to go asteroid hopping to the space rock that once threatened Earth Yes, that asteroid. By Elizabeth Rayne | 6 months ago
Is Ryugu a dead comet masquerading as an asteroid? The near-Earth object looks like an asteroid but may be an ice-free comet By Phil Plait | 8 months ago
Ryugu’s cosmic dust is some of the oldest stuff in the universe When scientists say an asteroid has “some of the most primordial material ever examined,” it’s for real. By Elizabeth Rayne | 10 months ago
NASA got a Ryugu sample, and it could be a time capsule of the solar system NASA now has a rare sample from Asteroid Ryugu, and the secrets of the solar system might be hiding in there. By Elizabeth Rayne | 11 months ago
Guy walks out to his front yard, finds a rock from the birth of the solar system By Elizabeth Rayne | 2 years ago
