In the Solar System · tracked live
Ryugu
A near-Earth asteroid under a kilometre across, here because Hayabusa2 spent a year and a half at it, fired a projectile into it to expose material the Sun had never touched, and brought 5.4 grams of it back to Australia in December 2020. The samples turned out to hold amino acids and water-bearing minerals - the case that this kind of rock delivered the ingredients of life to the early Earth is now made of pieces somebody can hold.
- Radius
- 0 km
- Around the equator
- 3 km
- From the Sun
- 210,458,858 km (+118,109 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 300,230,408 km (+846,465 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 17 min
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.