Bennu
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Surprise in NASA’s asteroid rocks hints Bennu came from ocean world
Scientists analyzing samples NASA brought back from an asteroid got a surprise detection that may mean the space rock was…
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Phosphate in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample suggests space rock Bennu hails from an 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…
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NASA finally got the stuck lid off its asteroid Bennu sample container
You’d think grabbing a scoop of dirt off an orbiting space rock and then delivering it back to Earth would…
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NASA finally opens capsule to potentially hazardous asteroid ‘Bennu’ that may contain seeds of life
After months of prying and jimmying, NASA scientists have at last opened the canister containing material scraped from the “potentially…
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