Article 6JEWR NASA's Asteroid Samples May Be Crumbs From an Ancient Ocean World

NASA's Asteroid Samples May Be Crumbs From an Ancient Ocean World

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Isaac Schultz
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After months of frustration, NASA finally got the Bennu asteroid sample container open in January, revealing the large amounts of asteroid scooped up by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Now, a top member of the mission says the distant hunk of space rock may be a planetesimal-a planet's building block-that once belonged to...

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