A Son of the Rock

I followed the link from today’s (25/6/18) Astronomy Picture of the Day to the Wiki page on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It’s a near-Earth asteroid with the (outside) possibility of coming so close as to present a potential threat of impact.

It looks like a cube! An irregular cube, granted, but still a cube.

It has been approached by a Japanese space probe, Hyabusa2, with a view to studying it more closely, by landing on it and moving around.

I also found the video below made from photos taken from the probe on its approach.