The unknowns of asteroid Ryugu. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
May 27, 2021, 02:07 AM
Photo: Photograph of the full disc of the asteroid 162173 Ryugu, as it appeared to the Hayabusa2 spacecraft at 03:50 UTC on 26 June 2018. The photograph was taken by the spacecraft's Optical Navigation Camera – Telescopic (ONC-T) at a distance of 20 kilometres (12 miles). 162173 Ryugu is the 23rd minor planet studied by a spacecraft in-situ, and is the target of the second ever sample-return mission to an asteroid, Hayabusa2.
162173 Ryugu, provisional designation 1999 JU3, is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It measures approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) in diameter and is a dark object of the rare spectral type Cb.
https://behindtheblack.com/?s=asteroid+Ryugu.
For the image sequence showing the rotation of Ryugu:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu#/media/File:Ryugu_rotation.gif
162173 Ryugu, provisional designation 1999 JU3, is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It measures approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) in diameter and is a dark object of the rare spectral type Cb.
https://behindtheblack.com/?s=asteroid+Ryugu.
For the image sequence showing the rotation of Ryugu:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu#/media/File:Ryugu_rotation.gif