Planetary Group Seminar: Landing on an asteroid: Ryugu as seen by MASCOT (S. Schroeder)
- Datum: 19.02.2020
- Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:00
- Vortragender: Stefan Schroeder
- DLR Berlin
- Ort: MPS
- Raum: Auditorium
- Gastgeber: Urs Mall
In October 2018, Hayabusa2 dropped a small lander to the surface of C-type asteroid Ryugu. MASCOT revealed the surface of a small asteroid as never seen before. I will discuss some of the major findings of this mission: MASCOT was able to characterize a rock on Ryugu from very close distance. Multi-colored inclusions in the rock strongly suggest a link between the C-type asteroid Ryugu and carbonaceous chondrites. The rock density, inferred to be very low, raises the question of whether such a rock could survive atmospheric entry and whether have a Ryugu-type rocks in our meteorite collections.