Asteroid Ryugu could be a remnant of an extinct comet - Daily Mail

Samples from the diamond shaped, half-mile diameter space rock were returned to Earth for study by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2020.

Asteroid Ryugu could be a remnant of an extinct comet that spent tens of thousands of years racing through the solar system, new data suggests. Scientists believe it was then vaporised by high tempe… [+6783 chars]

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