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Asteroid Ryugu was born out in the cold, in the solar system's earliest days


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Scientists Discover Asteroid Ryugu Came From Edges of Outer Space. Iron isotopes from Ryugu’s rock samples suggested that the asteroid’s construction significantly differed from typical carbon-rich meteorites in the Solar system.