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Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister (arstechnica.com)

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Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister::"There is some black dust-like material that's visible. We're hoping that's from Bennu."

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[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 points 1 year ago

Why spent a lot of effort bringing down samples from Bennu when that asteroid will go down to earth on its own in 159 years? /s

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