162173 Ryugu, provisional designation 1999 JU3, is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It measures approximately 1 kilometer (0.6 mi) in diameter and is a dark object of the rare spectral type Cg, with qualities of both a C-type asteroid and a G-type asteroid. In June 2018, the JAXA spacecraft, Hayabusa 2, arrived at the asteroid.[11

(162173) Ryugu is an asteroid classified as near-Earth object that is found by the LINEAR project. Ryugu is considered as a Cb-type asteroid.

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