Rigaku Conducts Elemental Analysis on Sample of Asteroid Bennu Obtained by NASA – Business Wire

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Rigaku Corporation, a company of the Rigaku Holdings Group and Rigaku’s global solutions partner in X-ray analysis equipment (Headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Jun Kawakami; hereinafter “Rigaku”), has completed particle analysis of 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid classified as type B. The analysis was conducted using the ZSX Primus IV, a wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer.

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ZSX Primus IV (Photo: Business Wire)

ZSX Primus IV (Photo: Business Wire)

The Bennu particles are a sample obtained from OSIRIS-Rex, a US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spacecraft. This is the second assignment entrusted to Rigaku to conduct analyzes on Bennu.

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