Meteorite provides record of asteroids "spitting out" pebbles

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 02:31:20 GMT
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Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 12, 2022 In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a...

Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 12, 2022 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 never seen this behavior from an asteroid before, and it's a mystery exactly why it happens. But in a new paper in Nature Astronomy, researche