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Samples from the asteroid Ryugu similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites
- nobody9999 4y agoFrom the abstract: "The Hayabusa2 (3) spacecraft was launched on 2014 December 3 to collect samples of the near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu, which is of Cb-type (a sub-class of C-type (carbonaceous) asteroid in the remote sensing classification). A mission goal was to determine the relationship between C-type asteroids and the carbonaceous chondrite meteorites."