Communications Earth & Environment (Jul 2021)

Ryugu’s observed volatile loss did not arise from impact heating alone

  • Kosuke Kurosawa,
  • Ryota Moriwaki,
  • Hikaru Yabuta,
  • Ko Ishibashi,
  • Goro Komatsu,
  • Takafumi Matsui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00218-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The loss of volatile material from asteroid Ryugu was not caused solely by heating from hypervelocity impacts as previously believed, suggest impact experiments conducted at speeds comparable to those expected in the main asteroid belt