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Bennu isn't likely to hit Earth - but if it did, here's what would happen
Bennu is just over ⅓ mile, or 560 meters, in diameter. And while we know about the devastating effects of a larger asteroid (just ask the dinosaurs) and the regional effects of a much smaller ...
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...
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The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large 'void' at its center. It may be spinning itself to death.
Your browser does not support the video element. The asteroid Bennu just keeps getting more bizarre. When NASA decided to send a probe to land on a space rock and ...
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‘Asteroid Bennu’s mystery’: Could it hold the missing link to Earth’s first life?
Scientists found traces of briny water and salty minerals, similar to those on Europa and Enceladus, suggesting liquid water once flowed on Bennu. A new study suggests Bennu may have formed beyond ...
PBS1y
Project Asteroid: Mapping Bennu
In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...
SETI11d
Amino Acids on Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Clues to Life’s Origins
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
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Asteroid Bennu: Why the return of samples is so important... in 83 seconds
A capsule carrying precious samples from asteroid Bennu landed on Earth on Sunday. Nasa scientists hope the material could give hints to how life here began. BBC Science editor Rebecca Morelle ...