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NASA’s Bennu mission uncovered a surprise nobody saw coming

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission set out to grab a small scoop of rock from asteroid Bennu and bring it home. Instead, it delivered ...
Futurism

Asteroid’s Surface Like a “Plastic Ball Pit,” Scientists Find

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s original mission was to fly to the asteroid Bennu, where it was mean to briefly land on the body’s presumably rocky surface, collect a small sample, and head back home.
SpaceNews

Asteroid Bennu Reveals its Surface is Like a Plastic Ball Pit

After analyzing data gathered when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, scientists have learned something astonishing: The spacecraft would have sunk ...
Mashable

NASA spacecraft finds that asteroid is just big ball pit

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had a mission in 2020: fly to Bennu, an asteroid about 200 million miles from earth, land briefly, collect a small sample, and return home. But its mission was thwarted, ...
CNN

Near-Earth asteroid has a surface like a fun-house pit of plastic balls

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A near-Earth ...