SpazeNear-Earth asteroid, C-type
Ryugu
Japan’s Hayabusa2 fired a copper bullet into it and brought samples home in 2020. Shaped like a spinning top.
- Size
- 1.004 × 0.876 km
- Orbit
- 474.1 days
- Distance from Sun
- 1 to 1.4 AU
- Day
- 7.6 hours
- Reflects
- 5% of sunlight
- Visited by
- Hayabusa2, 2018–2019
Can we live on Ryugu?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.00 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 0 kg there.
Ground: Carbonaceous rubble, darker than coal.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by Hayabusa2 sample