Tristan Bergen Meteored France
A Revolutionary Discovery!
We already knew that some asteroids contain organic molecules. This is especially true for carbonaceous asteroids, celestial bodies with a significant proportion of carbon, which make up about 15 to 30% of the asteroids known to date.
Asteroid Ryugu, discovered in 1999 by American astronomers, belongs to the family of carbonaceous asteroids. This object, roughly spherical in shape and about 875 meters in diameter, is a near-Earth asteroid, meaning that it crosses Earth’s orbit around the…
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