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A top view of one of the containers containing rocks and dust from the Beno asteroid, scaled in centimeters. Credit: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld and Joseph Aebersold

A surprise in the sample from the asteroid: its structure contains the "original ingredients" of the solar system

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The OSIRIS-Rex sample analysis team found that the asteroid dust was rich in carbon, nitrogen, organic compounds and magnesium sodium phosphate, suggesting special historical conditions.
Training replica of the sample lander from asteroid Benno, which will land on September 24, 2024 in Utah. Photo: NASA

The Osiris Rex spacecraft that took samples from an asteroid in 2020 is expected to land them in a capsule

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Asteroids pass by the Earth. Image: NASA

Considerable amounts of water were discovered in the Bennu asteroid, did the asteroids bring the water to Earth?

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A photograph of the Beno asteroid from the cameras of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, from an altitude of about 80 km. Photo: NASA

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft reaches asteroid 'Beno'

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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Image: NASA

NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and return soil samples from it

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The osiris-rex spacecraft lands on near-Earth asteroid 1999 RQ36

Scientists propose to launch a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid and return soil samples from it

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