Strange bright rocks reveal glimpse of asteroid Ryugu’s violent past – Space.com

Shiny boulders on one of the darkest asteroids
in the solar system may shed light on the cataclysmic impacts behind that space rock’s origins, a new study finds.
The near-Earth asteroids Itokawa, Bennu
and Ryugu
are each loose piles of rubble held together by their collective gravity. They likely formed after collisions shattered their parent bodies into many fragments. Much remains unknown about these catastrophic disruptions. 
To uncover secrets about rubble-pile asteroids, the Japan A…

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