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World first: Organic matter and water found on asteroid
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa mission exemplifies this effort by returning over a thousand tiny particles from asteroid Itokawa. Asteroid Itokawa, classified as an S ...
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There’s now proof that half of the world’s oceans came from outer space
especially in a nominally dry asteroid like Itokawa. Samples from another asteroid, Ryugu, had nearly no water at all. Yet, two cosmochemists at the Arizona State University (ASU) followed their ...