Japan-South Korea team to observe asteroid using Hokkaido telescope

A team of Japanese and South Korean researchers will start observing Ryugu asteroid next fall using a special telescope in Hokkaido, northern Japan, in hopes of gaining an understanding of how asteroids are formed, a member said Monday.Japan's Hayabusa2 probe recently completed its mission to collect samples from the asteroid, measuring about 900 meters in diameter and located some 250 million kilometers from Earth, and is scheduled to return around the end of 2020."We want to solve mysteries in which Hayabusa2 could not fully explore," said Masateru Ishiguro, a Seoul National University pr…READ FULL ARTICLE