1. Noble Gases and Nitrogen in Samples of Asteroid Ryugu Record Its Volatile Sources and Recent Surface Evolution
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Ryuji Okazaki, Bernard Marty, Henner Busemann, Ko Hashizume, Jamie D. Gilmour, Alex Meshik, Toru Yada, Fumio Kitajima, Michael W. Broadley, David Byrne, Evelyn Furi, My E.I. Riebe, Daniela Krietsch, Colin Maden, Akizumi Ishida, Patricia Clay, Sarah A. Crowther, Lydia Fawcett, Thomas Lawton, Olga Pravdivtseva, Yayoi N. Miura, Jisun Park, Ken-ichi Bajo, Yoshinori Takano, Keita Yamada, Shinsuke Kawagucci, Yohei Matsui, Mizuki Yamamoto, Kevin Righter, Saburo Sakai, Naoyoshi Iwata, Naoki Shirai, Shun Sekimoto, Makoto Inagaki, and Mitsuru Ebihara
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Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration - Abstract
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft retrieved surface and subsurface samples from the carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu, which was expected to be enriched in volatile species. The samples were collected from two locations, one undisturbed surface and the other including material excavated by an artificial impact. Unlike meteorites, these samples have experienced minimal alteration by Earth’s atmosphere. Ryugu is thought to have formed from material ejected (by an impact) from a parent body, which had experienced aqueous alteration (reactions with liquid water) ~4.56 billion years (Gyr) ago. Ryugu’s orbit later migrated from the main asteroid belt to become a near-Earth asteroid.
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- 2022
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