A surprising asteroid sample reveals that Bennu may have come from an ocean world
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Phosphorus in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample suggests Bennu space rock came from ocean world
On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule to Earth containing pristine carbonaceous regolith collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. These samples were …
‘Asteroid hunter’ digs deep into massive space object poised to pass close to Earth
Scientists have tracked down an asteroid the size of New York’s Empire State Building on Earth in 2182. While experts don’t think it’s likely to …
First look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock could even be ‘fragment of ancient ocean’
Scientists are now examining bits and pieces snagged, bagged and tagged from asteroid Bennu, the cosmic mother lode that delivers NASA’s Origin, Spectral Imaging, Resource …