A team of scientists at Argonne is among the few groups around the world chosen to study tiny fragments of an asteroid. These dust particles came from 162173 Ryugu, part of a group of near-Earth objects called the Apollo asteroids.These bits of rock are remarkably tiny — each is about 200 microns in diameter, about the size of three human hairs. But they carry with them information about how these asteroids were formed, and may tell us long-hidden secrets about the early days of the solar system, including the formation of Earth itself.
Using the X-ray technique known as Mössbauer spectroscopy, scientists will study tiny specks of asteroid 162173 Ryugu at the Advanced Photon Source, a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Argonne.
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