Life-Building Organic Molecules Found in Samples from Asteroid Ryugu

Did life originate on Earth? Or did the essential building blocks for it land on Earth from space? This is something scientists have been debating for decades.

Space Probe Finds Ingredients For Life On Asteroid

 

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Asteroid capsule landing point detected - BBC News

A recovery team in Australia has detected the landing point of a space capsule bearing the first large quantities of rock from an asteroid.

Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft reaches cosmic 'diamond'

A Japanese spacecraft has arrived at its target - an asteroid shaped like a diamond or, according to some, a spinning top.

NovaGea eco News (November 2015)

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Japan's space agency JAXA has announced the results of a competition to name asteroid 1999 JU3, the 980-metre-wide space rock it hopes to target with its sample-return mission Hayabusa2.

The agency chose the name Ryugu from over 7,000 suggestions.................Asteroid on which Japan's space agency will detonate explosives in 2018, to be called "Ryugu"

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 Eco Geo News-2 (October 2015)