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2018

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the name of the asteroid that the Japanese probe Hayabusa2 recently met?
A
1999 JU3
B
Ryugu
C
Juno
D
Ceres
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Hayabusa2 is a Japanese spacecraft that explored asteroid Ryugu (162173) from June 2018 to November 2019. It dispatched a series of landers and a penetrator, and it collected multiple samples from the asteroid.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Hayabusa-2 probe brought 5.4 grams of rocks and dust from the asteroid Ryugu to Earth in December 2020. Here is what its study has revealed. How did the Earth, believed to have been covered in bubbling oceans of magma billions of years ago, transform into the ‘blue planet’ and become covered in water?

Detailed explanation-3: -TOKYO–Water has been found in an asteroid sample collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 space probe, marking the first such discovery and shedding light on how the Earth’s oceans may have formed.

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