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Wonder what material that greyish rock looking stuff on the surface is.
by strikelaserclaw 7y ago
Wonder what material that greyish rock looking stuff on the surface is.
- neetodavid 7y agoI went poking around Wikpedia. Ryugu's surface is mostly carbon. It's also a "rubble pile" and about 50% of its volume is empty space. There could even be large voids within because the force of friction between pieces is greater than the force of gravity holding it together.
- ambicapter 7y agoHere's what it looks like when shot at with a "bullet"[0]. [0]https://www.cnet.com/videos/japans-hayabusa2-space-probe-fires-bullet-into-asteroid/ https://www.cnet.com/videos/japans-hayabusa2-space-probe-fir...
- mzs 7y agodetails: http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190214e_Experiment/ http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190214e_Experiment/