Rigaku Conducts Elemental Analysis of a Sample Obtained by NASA of the Asteroid Bennu

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rigaku Corporation, a Rigaku Holdings Group company and Rigaku global solution partner in X-ray analytical equipment (head office: Akishima, Tokyo; president and representative director: Jun Kawakami; hereinafter “Rigaku”), has completed analysis of particles from 101955 Bennu, a near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid classified as a type B. The analysis was performed using ZSX Primus IV, a wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer. The particles from Bennu are a s