Asteroid Ryugu Sample Contains More Carbon than Meteorite Murchison.

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Quote from the above research paper:
"Results and Discussion: The Ryugu sample
(A0106) contained 3.76 wt% C, 1.14 wt% H and 0.16
wt% N, indicating that Ryugu is the richest in C, H and
N compared to various types of carbonaceous
chondrites."

Meteorite Murchison contains only 2% carbon.

Added on April 29: More results:
"Hundreds of thousands of ion signals were detected between m/z 100 and 700 in the methanol extract, in which almost 20,000 molecular compositions consisting of C, H, N, O and/or S were assigned [6]. T"

Last Edited by Wretch Fossil on 04/29/2022 03:51 AM