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Space news: Bennu asteroid secrets unlocked by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx – 7NEWS.com.au
It has taken two years to get to this extraordinary moment.
Earth meet Bennu, Bennu meet Earth.
For all you Earthlings not following everything happening above your head Bennu is a celebrity asteroid and later this month a NASA spacecraft will land on this space rock to collect a couple of samples of dirt.
It has taken two years to get to this extraordinary moment.
The OSIRIS-Rex probe has been circling Bennu in the hope of landing on it. There is evidence of water molecules on its surface.
In six papers published in the journals of Science and Scien…
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