Asteroid
162173 Ryugu
162173 Ryugu is a near-Earth object on its own orbit around the Sun.
Hayabusa2 shot it, landed on it twice and brought 5 grams home in 2020.
See it live
Where it is right now is on the live 3D map.
Key facts
- Catalogue
- 162173 Ryugu
- Diameter
- 0.90 km
- One lap of the Sun
- 474 days
- Closest to the Sun
- 0.96 au
How the map draws it
Drawn from a published model of 162173 Ryugu · it turns about its measured pole at its measured rate; which side faces the Sun at this moment is not a prediction.