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An Asteroid Will Fly By Earth in 4 Years. Scientists Are Racing to Uncover Its Secrets.
As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...
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Space rocks carrying life’s building blocks collide with UI research
Recent papers published in Nature and Nature Astronomy found life’s building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.
An Asteroid Will Fly By Earth in 4 Years
As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...
Why the meteorites that hit Earth have less water than the asteroid bits brought back by space probes – a planetary scientist explains new research
Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research ...
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Asteroid Bennu: What the Empire State-sized asteroid can do to Earth if it hits it in 2182
Bennu, an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, has a 1-in-2700 chance of hitting Earth in 2182. 'Moon Dust to megawatts': Wild new tech may power cities beyond Earth 'China is worried ...
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"Blew Us Away": Experts On Life-Building Chemicals In Asteroid Bennu Samples
Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu. They believe the asteroid is a plant-like object rich in water and ...
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Robot Geologists Will Soon Bring Asteroid Samples Back to Earth
Late last year, NASA announced it had selected sites to grab samples from the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and, after a journey of two years, it began ...
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Age of upcoming asteroid flyby target
New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246 ... very far from the source regions of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, recently visited respectively by NASA's ...