Meteorites from Vesta Found on Asteroid Bennu

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Meteorites from Vesta Found on Asteroid Bennu
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Summary

In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The new result sheds light on the intricate orbital dance of asteroids and on the violent origin of Bennu, which is a “rubble pile” asteroid that coalesced from the fragments of a massive collision.

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  • Source collection: NASA
  • License: Public Domain (US Government)
  • Category: Space

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  1. Primary source record: https://images.nasa.gov/details/GSFC_20200921_M13707_VestaBennu
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