Ryugu's Parent Body Retained Abundant Water: Research Team

Ryugu's Parent Body Retained Abundant Water: Research Team
Tokyo, Sept. 11 (Jiji Press)--A research team led by the University of Tokyo has discovered that the parent celestial body of asteroid Ryugu retained plentiful water for over one billion years after its birth. The team's finding, published in British science journal Nature on Thursday, was based on analysis of sand on Ryugu sampled and brought to the Earth by Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid prob...