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New Study Of Samples From Bennu Asteroid Indicate That It Came From A Distant Watery Planet
A sample of material from the Bennu asteroid were brought back to Earth thanks to the OSIRIS-REx mission, and since these ...
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Asteroid 'bigger than Empire State Building' hurtling towards Earth
They hired Dante Lauretta, 54, a professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona, to lead the ...
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'What is that material?': Potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu stumps scientists with its odd makeup
"We definitely have hydrated, organic-rich remnants from the early solar system, which is exactly what we were hoping when we first conceived this mission almost 20 years ago," Dante Lauretta ...
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How NASA's asteroid sample survived despite a parachute flop
Dante Lauretta, the team's principal scientist who nervously waited in a nearby helicopter at the time, cried when he finally heard confirmation the main parachute opened. "That was the moment I ...
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The stunning history of the Fukang Pallasite meteorite
At the show, Dr. Dante Lauretta, a professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona realized ...
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A surprise in NASA's asteroid rocks hints Bennu came from an ocean world
"The presence and state of phosphates, along with other elements and compounds on Bennu, suggest a watery past for the asteroid,” said principal investigator Dante Lauretta in a statement.
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First Look at Asteroid Hints It's a Fragment of a Lost Ocean World
"We're going to be busy for a long, long time," planetary scientist Dante Lauretta, from the University of Arizona, told Leonard David at Space.com. "This is an enormous amount of sample for us." ...
NASA Found Something Unexpected In Its First Sample From An Asteroid
"The presence and state of phosphates, along with other elements and compounds on Bennu, suggest a watery past for the ...