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Ryugu’s nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System

Science Advances, 2022
Little is known about the origin of the spectral diversity of asteroids and what it says about conditions in the protoplanetary disk. Here, we show that samples returned from Cb-type asteroid Ryugu have Fe isotopic anomalies indistinguishable from Ivuna-type (CI) chondrites, which are distinct from all other carbonaceous chondrites.
Hopp, Timo, Dauphas, Nicolas, Abe, Yoshinari, Aléon, Jérôme, O, Conel, Alexander, D, Amari, Sachiko, Amelin, Yuri, Bajo, Ken-Ichi, Bizzarro, Martin, Bouvier, Audrey, Carlson, Richard, Chaussidon, Marc, Choi, Byeon-Gak, Davis, Andrew, Di, Tommaso, Fujiya, Wataru, Fukai, Ryota, Gautam, Ikshu, Haba, Makiko, Hibiya, Yuki, Hidaka, Hiroshi, Homma, Hisashi, Hoppe, Peter, Huss, Gary, Ichida, Kiyohiro, Iizuka, Tsuyoshi, Ireland, Trevor, Ishikawa, Akira, Ito, Motoo, Itoh, Shoichi, Kawasaki, Noriyuki, Kita, Noriko, Kitajima, Kouki, Kleine, Thorsten, Komatani, Shintaro, Krot, Alexander, Liu, Ming-Chang, Masuda, Yuki, Mckeegan, Kevin, Morita, Mayu, Motomura, Kazuko, Moynier, Frédéric, Nakai, Izumi, Nagashima, Kazuhide, Nesvorný, David, Nguyen, Ann, Nittler, Larry, Onose, Morihiko, Pack, Andreas, Park, Changkun, Piani, Laurette, Qin, Liping, Russell, Sara, Sakamoto, Naoya, Schönbächler, Maria, Tafla, Lauren, Tang, Haolan, Terada, Kentaro, Terada, Yasuko, Usui, Tomohiro, Wada, Sohei, Wadhwa, Meenakshi, Walker, Richard, Yamashita, Katsuyuki, Yin, Qing-Zhu, Yokoyama, Tetsuya, Yoneda, Shigekazu, Young, Edward, Yui, Hiroharu, Zhang, Ai-Cheng, Nakamura, Tomoki, Naraoka, Hiroshi, Noguchi, Takaaki, Okazaki, Ryuji, Sakamoto, Kanako, Yabuta, Hikaru, Abe, Masanao, Miyazaki, Akiko, Nakato, Aiko, Nishimura, Masahiro, Okada, Tatsuaki, Yada, Toru, Yogata, Kasumi, Nakazawa, Satoru, Saiki, Takanao, Tanaka, Satoshi, Terui, Fuyuto, Tsuda, Yuichi, Watanabe, Sei-Ichiro, Yoshikawa, Makoto, Tachibana, Shogo, Yurimoto, Hisayoshi   +92 more
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Visualization of nanoscale magnetic domain states in the asteroid Ryugu

Scientific Reports, 2023
In the samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu, magnetite displays natural remanent magnetization due to nebular magnetic field, whereas contemporaneously grown iron sulfide does not display stable remanent magnetization.
Yuki Kimura, Takeharu Kato, Toshiaki Tanigaki, Tetsuya Akashi, Hiroto Kasai, Satoshi Anada, Ryuji Yoshida, Kazuo Yamamoto, Tomoki Nakamura, Masahiko Sato, Kana Amano, Mizuha Kikuiri, Tomoyo Morita, Eiichi Kagawa, Toru Yada, Masahiro Nishimura, Aiko Nakato, Akiko Miyazaki, Kasumi Yogata, Masanao Abe, Tatsuaki Okada, Tomohiro Usui, Makoto Yoshikawa, Takanao Saiki, Satoshi Tanaka, Fuyuto Terui, Satoru Nakazawa, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Takaaki Noguchi, Ryuji Okazaki, Hikaru Yabuta, Hiroshi Naraoka, Kanako Sakamoto, Sei-ichiro Watanabe, Yuichi Tsuda, Shogo Tachibana   +35 more
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Noble gases and nitrogen in material from asteroid Bennu

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 7, Page 1593-1609, July 2026.
Abstract We report the elemental and isotopic abundances of all stable noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon) in eight particles from asteroid Bennu returned by NASA's OSIRIS‐REx mission. We also report nitrogen abundances and isotopic ratios that were analyzed alongside neon and argon in four additional Bennu particles.
B. Marty, L. Zimmermann, E. Füri, D. V. Bekaert, J. J. Barnes, A. N. Nguyen, H. C. Connolly, D. S. Lauretta   +7 more
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Sampling, Mobility, and Anchoring in Small‐Body Sampling Robots: A Comprehensive Review

SmartBot, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2026.
Small‐body sampling robots are exploration systems that perform contact, sampling, and stable operations on microgravity bodies such as asteroids and comets. The authors review representative robot architectures and key technologies, focusing on the mechanisms, evolution, and coupling of sampling, mobility, and anchoring.
Yurui Shen, Yixin Zhu, Mingxia Bao, Ting Zhang, Jun Wu, Jingbin Hao, Dezheng Hua, Xinhua Liu   +7 more
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Constraining surface properties of asteroid (162173) Ryugu from numerical simulations of Hayabusa2 mission impact experiment

Nature Communications, 2022
Hayabusa2 mission impact experiment on asteroid Ryugu formed a crater larger than expected. Here, the authors show numerical impact simulations and find that the target cohesion may be very low, indicating the Hayabusa2 impact experiment probably ...
Martin Jutzi, Sabina D. Raducan, Yun Zhang, Patrick Michel, Masahiko Arakawa   +4 more
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Anhydrous minerals in asteroid Bennu: Evidence for well‐preserved primordial components

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 6, Page 963-986, June 2026.
Abstract Aqueously altered carbonaceous astromaterials are dominated by secondary minerals, but a minor fraction of primary, anhydrous silicates and oxides escape alteration, offering insight into the original composition of asteroid parent bodies. We report the mineralogy, petrology, mineral chemistry, and oxygen isotopes of anhydrous minerals—50 ...
S. S. Russell, I. A. Franchi, T. Salge, X. Zhao, R. H. Jones, A. J. King, N. V. Almeida, P. F. Schofield, H. C. Bates, E. A. Cortes‐Calderon, N. Kawasaki, Y. Yurimoto, Y. Marrocchi, G. Libourel, K. Thomas‐Keprta, L. P. Keller, K. Righter, T. J. McCoy, T. J. Zega, J. J. Barnes, A. N. Nguyen, S. Tachibana, H. C. Connolly Jr, D. S. Lauretta   +23 more
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Low temperatures and high water/rock ratios in asteroid (101955) Bennu's history based on X‐ray powder diffraction of returned samples

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 6, Page 1077-1094, June 2026.
Abstract Samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS‐REx mission from the carbonaceous asteroid (101955) Bennu hold clues about conditions in the early solar system and the formation of planetary bodies. Initial investigation of Bennu samples found that they are rich in phyllosilicates and other secondary minerals formed during aqueous alteration of a larger ...
A. J. King, P. F. Schofield, J. Najorka, H. C. Bates, S. S. Russell, T. J. McCoy, T. J. Zega, H. C. Connolly Jr, D. S. Lauretta   +8 more
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Fracture analysis on asteroid Ryugu [PDF]

, 2023
Fractures in boulders on the Near-Earth-Asteroid Ryugu were mapped and analysed in this work, using image data from the Japanese Hayabusa-2 mission. This resulted in orientation distributions and length distribution of the fractures. The preferred orientation of the fractures is North-South, relative to Ryugu’s equator.
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Potential of VIS‐IR imaging spectroscopy and SEM‐EDS and EMPA to map the mineralogical composition of NWA 7317 (CR6)

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 6, Page 1026-1044, June 2026.
Abstract Asteroid compositional analysis relies on comparing reflectance spectra with laboratory data from well‐characterized meteorites. To advance this comparison, we performed a comprehensive laboratory analysis on a slab of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 7317—CR6 carbonaceous chondrite.
Simone Pascucci, Tiberio Cuppone, Martina Casalini, Simone De Angelis, Antonio Lettino, Angelo Palombo, Eliana La Francesca, Gianrico Filacchione, Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Anna Galiano, Giovanni Pratesi   +10 more
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The geoarchaeology of planetary exploration: new approaches to space heritage preservation

Geology Today, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 129-133, May/June 2026.
On 21 May 2015, the United States passed the ‘Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act’, also known as the SPACE Act, encouraging a competitive commercial space exploration industry and effectively ushering a new space race, or even space age. Unlike the former space age of the 1950s–1970s which was characterized by intense competition between the ...
Justin A. Holcomb, Beth L. O'Leary, Rolfe D. Mandel   +2 more
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