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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

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.
A phosphate mine in the state of Utah, United States. Source: Jason Parker-Burlingham.

The mission: improving the estimation of particle emissions from phosphate mines

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