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Largest asteroid sample ever collected is coming down to Earth

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Largest asteroid sample ever collected is coming down to Earth Largest asteroid sample ever collected is coming down to Earth
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Image credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain. Article by Loren Grush, Bloomberg News. Phys.org – September 23, 2023.

Chunks of asteroid that could tell us about the earliest days of the 4.5 billion-year-old solar system and the possible origins of water on our planet are set to land in the Utah desert Sunday. It’s a moment more than a decade in the making for a NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx. Its goal was to scoop up a large sample of rocks and dust from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu and bring it to our planet to study. […]

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