Spectrally blue hydrated parent body of asteroid (162173) Ryugu.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
05 Oct 2021
Historique:
received: 14 04 2021
accepted: 10 09 2021
entrez: 6 10 2021
pubmed: 7 10 2021
medline: 7 10 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Ryugu is a carbonaceous rubble-pile asteroid visited by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Small rubble pile asteroids record the thermal evolution of their much larger parent bodies. However, recent space weathering and/or solar heating create ambiguities between the uppermost layer observable by remote-sensing and the pristine material from the parent body. Hayabusa2 remote-sensing observations find that on the asteroid (162173) Ryugu both north and south pole regions preserve the material least processed by space weathering, which is spectrally blue carbonaceous chondritic material with a 0-3% deep 0.7-µm band absorption, indicative of Fe-bearing phyllosilicates. Here we report that spectrally blue Ryugu's parent body experienced intensive aqueous alteration and subsequent thermal metamorphism at 570-670 K (300-400 °C), suggesting that Ryugu's parent body was heated by radioactive decay of short-lived radionuclides possibly because of its early formation 2-2.5 Ma. The samples being brought to Earth by Hayabusa2 will give us our first insights into this epoch in solar system history.

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pubmed: 34611167
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26071-8
pii: 10.1038/s41467-021-26071-8
pmc: PMC8492871
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Journal Article

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eng

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5837

Subventions

Organisme : MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
ID : Core-to-Core program
Organisme : MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
ID : Core-to-Core program "International Network of Planetary Sciences"

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Auteurs

Eri Tatsumi (E)

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. etatsumi-ext@iac.es.
Department of Astrophysics, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. etatsumi-ext@iac.es.
The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. etatsumi-ext@iac.es.

Naoya Sakatani (N)

Rikkyo University, Toshima, Tokyo, Japan.

Lucie Riu (L)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Moe Matsuoka (M)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Rie Honda (R)

Kochi University, Kochi, Kochi, Japan.

Tomokatsu Morota (T)

The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Shingo Kameda (S)

Rikkyo University, Toshima, Tokyo, Japan.

Tomoki Nakamura (T)

Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.

Michael Zolensky (M)

NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Rosario Brunetto (R)

Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France.

Takahiro Hiroi (T)

Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

Sho Sasaki (S)

Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.

Sei'ichiro Watanabe (S)

Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.

Satoshi Tanaka (S)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.
SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Jun Takita (J)

Hokkaido Kitami Hokuto High School, Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan.

Cédric Pilorget (C)

Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France.

Julia de León (J)

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Department of Astrophysics, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

Marcel Popescu (M)

Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.

Juan Luis Rizos (JL)

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Department of Astrophysics, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

Javier Licandro (J)

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Department of Astrophysics, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

Ernesto Palomba (E)

NAF, Instituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy.

Deborah Domingue (D)

Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA.

Faith Vilas (F)

Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA.

Humberto Campins (H)

University of Central Florida, Orland, FL, USA.

Yuichiro Cho (Y)

The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Kazuo Yoshioka (K)

The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Hirotaka Sawada (H)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Yasuhiro Yokota (Y)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Masahiko Hayakawa (M)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Manabu Yamada (M)

Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC), Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Chiba, Japan.

Toru Kouyama (T)

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Koto, Tokyo, Japan.

Hidehiko Suzuki (H)

Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.

Chikatoshi Honda (C)

The University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan.

Kazunori Ogawa (K)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Kohei Kitazato (K)

The University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan.

Naru Hirata (N)

The University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan.

Naoyuki Hirata (N)

Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.

Yuichi Tsuda (Y)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.
SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Makoto Yoshikawa (M)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.
SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Takanao Saiki (T)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Fuyuto Terui (F)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Satoru Nakazawa (S)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Yuto Takei (Y)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Hiroshi Takeuchi (H)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.
SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Yukio Yamamoto (Y)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.
SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Tatsuaki Okada (T)

The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Yuri Shimaki (Y)

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

Kei Shirai (K)

Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.

Seiji Sugita (S)

The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC), Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Chiba, Japan.

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