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Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an international team of collaborators have used a ...

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The asteroid Ryugu imaged by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft in 2018 JAXA / Kevin M. Gill via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-2.0 The asteroid Ryugu, millions of miles away from Earth, might not look that ...