Asteroid Bennu Formed From A Mixture Of Inner And Outer Solar System Material Potentially Stirred Up By Jupiter
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Asteroid Bennu Formed From A Mixture Of Inner And Outer Solar System Material Potentially Stirred Up By Jupiter
One of the few asteroids we've managed to sample, Bennu contains a curious mix of cosmic dust that could provide insights into how our own planet formed.
The origin of asteroid Bennu is surprising. It did not originate in the distant parts of the solar system, but its parent body originated in a special transition zone nearby.
The building blocks of the asteroid Bennu could have gathered near the water-ice line within the Jupiter orbit at that time. Isotope analyses of returned samples indicate a dust mix of inner and outer solar systems. The team suspects that the young Jupiter retained coarser particles while fine dust reached the region of origin. Zurich (Switzerland). The OSIRIS REx mission brought 2023 samples of the near-earth asteroid [...] The article Isotope …
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