Ryugu

Ryugu — asteroid, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Ryugu in a live 3D Solar System. Follow its calculated motion and inspect real astronomical data, distances and orbital facts.

A dark, spinning-top asteroid sampled by Hayabusa2. Its terrain comes from the mission’s reconstructed shape, with a grayscale ONC camera mosaic. Japan returned samples to Earth in 2020. The surface map contains observed lighting; spin-axis attitude is illustrative.

Model

JAXA/Hayabusa2 · Watanabe et al. 2019

Model extent

1.02 × 1.02 × 0.964 km

Surface

Hayabusa2 ONC grayscale mosaic

Trajectory

JPL SBDB osculating elements · two-body approximation

Attitude

Illustrative; not a predicted pole orientation

Explore Ryugu in 3D

Cosmoscope places Ryugu in the Solar System using astronomical ephemeris or orbital elements, updated for the simulation time. Explore its calculated motion, distance and orbital facts in the interactive 3D view. Accuracy depends on the orbital model and its valid time range.