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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the ... is something that has been observed in Earth’s past, Drabon said. Next, the researchers plan to model the responses early ...
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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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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
Ever since the Bennu samples returned to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, we and our colleagues on four continents have spent hundreds of hours studying them. The instruments on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists ... NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned samples from the asteroid to Earth in 2023. They quickly found these contained a plethora of the chemical ...
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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
Astronomers estimate that Bennu has a 1 in 2,700 chance of ... is something that has been observed in Earth’s past, Drabon said. Next, the researchers plan to model the responses early humans ...