Reply to post: Re: Uneasy

Hayabusa2 stirs up rubble on surface of Ryugu, pokes asteroid with sampling horn

RayG

Re: Uneasy

Genuine answer: nowadays, this has been thought about quite a lot. It's not too much of a worry, as the high radiation high vacuum environment of an asteroid is quite hostile to complex organic chemistry. However they also really care about not contaminating the retrieved specimens and destroying their value, so they're likely to put them in a pretty tightly screwed down jar.

I'm more afraid of hostile life forms from the back of my fridge than hostile life forms from Asteroid Ryugu.

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