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boundegar t1_itpqp5f wrote

Reply to comment by RobertTheGenius in Scientists Discover Asteroid Ryugu Came From Edges of Outer Space. Iron isotopes from Ryugu’s rock samples suggested that the asteroid’s construction significantly differed from typical carbon-rich meteorites in the Solar system. by Educational_Sector98

The article makes perfect sense, but I think reddit has a bot that writes the headlines, and it's not very smart.

They know because the samples brought back are typical of bodies that formed beyond Jupiter. That's a pretty weird definition of "edges of outer space," but the ClickBot may have failed 4th grade science.

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Funicularly t1_itqeprx wrote

Did you click on the article? The title says “OUTER LIMITS: Scientists Discover Asteroid Ryugu Came From Edges of Outer Space”. What does that have to do with Reddit?

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mr_bedbugs t1_itre264 wrote

IIRC, from my 3rd grade days, "outer space" is past the asteroid belt, and "inner space" is before it.

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