Asteroid Ryugu rocked by Hayabusa2’s impactor – ScienceDaily – AlKhaleej Today

Professor ARAKAWA Masahiko (Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Japan) and members of the Hayabusa2 mission discovered more than 200 boulders ranging in size from 30cm to 6m that either re-emerged or moved due to the artificial impact crater created by the Japanese April 2019, the Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft was deployed. Some boulders were even disturbed in areas up to 40 m from the center of the crater. The researchers also discovered that the seismic shaking…

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