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Asteroid Ryugu
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- NASA has received its first sample of asteroid Ryugu that returned to Earth in December 2020 by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
- Samples from asteroid Ryugu is one of the first samples to leave Japan for preliminary investigation.
- Mike Zolensky was one of the first scientists to examine this sample so as to determine its basic nature.
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- Asteroid Ryugu is also called as 162173 Ryugu.
- It is provisionally designated as 1999 JU3.
- It is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid belonging to Apollo group.
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