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Wirtana, Ryugu, and Bennu

15 December 2023
Astronomy

At https://www.livescience.com/space/meteoroids/brand-new-meteor-shower-from-christmas-comet-may-appear-over-earth-for-1st-time-this-week … the so called Christmas Comet, 46P Wirtanen, may have given birth to a new meteor stream – arriving about the same time as the Geminids. It will be invisible to most people and only be seen over Indonesia and the South Sea Islands. This week is nearly gone.

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231211114608.htm … a study of material from the asteroid Ryugu, collected by the Japanese Hyabusa 2 spacecraft, have had an initial analysis. The fragments challenge previous assumptions about the parent bodies of chondrite meteoric material.

At https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/what-is-that-material-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-bennu-stumps-scientists-with-its-odd-makeup … scientists find sign of organic molecules in the first samples from the asteroid Bennu – and an odd material yet to be identified.

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