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Queen Legend Brian May Talks NASA Asteroid Mission Collaboration In Exclusive Interview
Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...
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Asteroid Bennu has a surprisingly watery past, researchers say | CNN - CNN International
An early analysis of a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu suggests that the space rock had an unexpectedly water-rich past — and it may have even splintered off from an ancient ocean world ...
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Asteroid Bennu has been hanging out with Earth for over a million years | CNN - CNN International
The near-Earth asteroid Bennu has been in an orbit that brings it near to Earth for 1.75 million years, based on a study of craters on the asteroid’s surface.
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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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Bennu asteroid will come very close to Earth, but scientists say not a reason for concern. - The Washington Post
It’s not the plot of another doomsday movie. Yet there is a pending, albeit unlikely, threat to life as we know it: an asteroid approaching Earth. Bennu, a rugged, rock-spewing asteroid with a ...
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Asteroid Bennu is about to play ‘tag’ with a NASA spacecraft
On October 20, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will briefly touchdown on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and attempt the agency’s first sample collection from an asteroid that will be returned to ...
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NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters | The Verge
Bennu, the asteroid from which OSIRIS-REx collected its sample, is thought to be made up of material that is around 4.5 billion years old, making it a potential time capsule from the earliest ...
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Bennu, an ancient asteroid, gets its first visitor in billions of years
After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer, OSIRIS-REx pulled within 12 miles of the ...
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Asteroid Bennu may have got its spinning-top shape from landslides
Asteroids that are shaped like spinning tops, such as Bennu and Ryugu, may have been slowed down and shaped by a series of huge landslides. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content. Sign in.
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OSIRIS-REx finds its asteroid is spewing material and is much more rugged than expected - The Verge
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made an astonishing discovery about the asteroid it has been orbiting since December: the rock is actively spewing material out into space. The asteroid, named Bennu ...
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The Asteroid NASA Landed on Is Hollow and Spinning Itself to Death - Business Insider
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. ... Bennu completes one rotation every four hours, and it's only getting faster. "You could imagine maybe in a million years or less, ...
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Asteroid Bennu has a surprisingly watery past, researchers say | CNN
A sample from asteroid Bennu contains organic compounds usually found at midocean ridges on Earth, suggesting Bennu may have been part of an ancient ocean world.