According to scientists, fragments from a distant asteroid have helped reveal more about the early life of our sun.
Scientists have used samples from asteroid ‘Ryugu’ to learn more about how asteroids form around us, as well as the formation of the Earth.
The team, from the Paris International Physics Institute, the University of the City of Paris and the National Center for Scientific Research, found that the asteroid ‘Ryugu’ consists of ‘meteorite-like carbon chondrite (CI) of Ivona” (Ivona) , which helps scientists better understand the origin of asteroids.
This carbonaceous chondrite (CI) is one of the oldest meteorites thought to contain components that were early in the formation of the Sun.
However, some of the isotopic signatures – for example: titanium and chromium – are associated with other carbonaceous chondrite groups, so the details of the relationship between Ryugu and the carbonaceous chondrites (CI) are unclear.
Carbonaceous chondrites help light up our planet, with scientists believing Ryugu-like objects from the outer sun make up 6% of the earth’s surface.
The new study marks Ryugu’s latest discovery, 300 million kilometers from Earth.
And in the two years since Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft returned to Earth after a space test, scientists have continued to discover many new things about Ryugu, which help explain our planet’s history when it was even younger. And now.
Scientists have been able to track objects from the most distant regions of the solar system in the past and find them when they fell to Earth in the form of meteorites.
But the Hayabusa2 mission was the first time scientists have observed such samples without landing in space and on Earth.
