There's Something Weird About the Craters of Asteroid Ryugu

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The Japanese mission Hayabusa2 just bid farewell to the asteroid the probe spent over a year studying, and scientists have now announced some intriguing trends they noticed in the spacecraft's photos.

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The report indicated, "The researchers said that most of the equatorial ridge is relatively old but the westernmost part is younger. " Crater dating and the age of surfaces on various bodies in our solar system is difficult. Mercury to Pluto, various surfaces can be shown to have young ages too. That means young surface ages do not conform or work well with radiometric ages for meteorites, used since Clair Patterson time in the mid-50s to date the age of the solar system.