A Billion-Year-Old Secret Unlocked in Asteroid Bennu’s Dust
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
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Why Asteroid Bennu Stumped NASA Scientists
Asteroid Bennu wasn’t what NASA expected. Instead of a smooth surface for sample collection, OSIRIS-REx encountered a chaotic ...
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Bennu isn’t likely to hit Earth — but if it did, here’s what would happen
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.
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Building Blocks Of Life Found On Asteroid Bennu
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
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What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?
While some are left to worry about Bennu's low probability of impact, the IBS researchers used advanced climate models and the supercomputer Aleph to figure out what would happen after.
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Scientists Find ‘Mirror Life’ Building Blocks on Asteroid Bennu
“Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started ... a bar of ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...
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Scientists predict devastation if asteroid Bennu strikes Earth in 2182
After examining just 0.06% of a 120-gram material sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu — which returned to Earth in Utah's west desert in September 2023 — a group of scientists has ...
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Asteroid Bennu could trigger a global winter lasting more than 3 years and here’s what’s known
Originally named 1999 RQ36, it was renamed in 2013. Bennu is an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the Sun, creation, and rebirth. The reports explains how such a collision would launch 400 ...