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Japanese scientists find water and organic matter on Itokawa asteroid – Boing Boing
Scientists have found water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid sample collected from the solar system – the first time that such material has been…
Scientists have found water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid sample collected from the solar system – the first time that such material has been found on an asteroid.
The sample, which was only a single grain, came from asteroid ‘Itokawa’ by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (Jaxa) first Hayabusa mission in 2010.
It shows both water and organic matter that originate not from an alien world, but from the asteroid itself. Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London,…
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