For a long time this asteroid was regarded as a typical representative of the outer solar system. A recent study of rock samples at atomic level, however, moves the site of origin to another region. read more on t3n.de
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Thanks to the samples reported by NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe, geochemists have reconstructed the birth conditions of the Bennu asteroid. Long classified among the objects originating from the glazed borders of the Solar System, it would have been born, in reality, much closer than we thought.
For a long time this asteroid was regarded as a typical representative of the outer solar system. A recent study of rock samples at atomic level, however, moves the site of origin to another region. read more on t3n.de