“Hayabusa2”: Exchange Ryugu sample with NASA: NASA / OSIRIS-REx
-NASA builds a laboratory and stores research-
JAXA:
By the end of 2021, including NASA
To 6 research teams in the world
Distribute Ryugu samples and
We will jointly research the analysis on a global scale.
JAXA and NASA:
JAXA and NASA will receive a part of the Ryugu sample collected by Hayabusa2.
Instead, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had an agreement to “provide JAXA with some of the samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.”
OSIRIS-REX:
On October 28, 2020, we succeeded in collecting more than 60 grams of sample from the surface of Bennu.
OSIRIS-REx will return to Earth in 2023.
Remaining components of the early solar system
JAXA and NASA are exploration of “C-type asteroids” whose main component is carbonaceous chondrites.
The components of the early solar system remain.
Sample analysis of Ryugu:
A research team of Dr. Nakamura and Dr. Sneed will analyze Ryugu samples in the new laboratory.
Ryugu’s sample appears to be a small substance weighing only 10 milligrams.
It is expected that many new discoveries will be made, such as the mixing of organic hydrous compounds with minerals.
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