See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...

Tachibana, S., et al. (2022) Pebbles and Sans on Asteroid (162173) Ryugu On-Site Observation and Returned Particles from Two Landing Sites. Science, 375, 1011-1016.

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Samples from asteroid Ryugu bear hydrated ammonium magnesium phosphorus (HAMP) grains, which have no known parallels to meteorite minerals but provide clues to the formation of Ryugu and suggest ...