Related: Bennu sample has rocks unlike any meteorite ever found ... to the salty brines found in evaporating lakes on Earth's surface. Phyllosilicate deposits are also found at hydrothermal ...

A SwRI-led study found that the rocky fragments dominating the surface asteroid Bennu are weakly bound, exhibiting near-zero cohesion, probably due to size and low gravity of the small body.

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Its contents: 122 grams of dust and rock from asteroid Bennu. The probe had collected this sample from the surface of the 500 ... In technical terms, the rocks that form from such precipitation ...

OSIRIS-REx found that Bennu’s surface was far rougher than thought, and mission controllers spent years finding a spot on Bennu’s where the spacecraft could quickly touchdown and gather samples.

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