Meteorite provides record of asteroids 'spitting out' pebbles - Phys.org
8/11/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 8 months ago
by Science X staff
by Science X staff
In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid appeared to be shooting off swarms of marble-sized rocks. Scientists had nev…
In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid appeared to be s… [+5531 chars]
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