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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the ...
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Asteroid Bennu could trigger a global winter lasting more than 3 years and here’s what’s known
The vast majority can be found in the asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between ... Originally named 1999 RQ36, it was renamed in 2013. Bennu is an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the Sun ...
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Here’s What Would Happen If Asteroid Bennu Hit Earth
A group of researchers based in South Korea drew up scenarios indicating how Earth’s climate and life on our planet would be affected by the impact of a medium-sized asteroid like Bennu.
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Scientists predict devastation if asteroid Bennu strikes Earth in 2182
WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 ...
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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 future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...
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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Could Cause A Global Catastrophe, Scientists Say
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...
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NASA brought back samples from asteroid Bennu. They revealed clues about the possible origins of life.
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...
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Scientists discover unusual California lake contains minerals found in space
The modest container was holding samples collected from Bennu, a diamond-shaped asteroid billions of miles away, and had been traveling through the dark corridors of space for years. After it ...
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Bennu asteroid samples yield watery history, key molecules for life
Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke. Our research team has ...
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Lurking inside an asteroid: life’s ingredients
A team of researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday that the asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of organic molecules, including many crucial building blocks of life.
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Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples
Credit: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving ...