Asteroid spacedust offers glimpse into celestial history as Canada readies to receive sample for research | Unpublished
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Author: Sidhartha Banerjee
Publication Date: August 31, 2025 - 13:52

Asteroid spacedust offers glimpse into celestial history as Canada readies to receive sample for research

August 31, 2025

New research on a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu – a small portion of which should arrive in Canada soon – is offering a glimpse into how it came to be.

Studies published in Nature Astronomy and Nature Geoscience last week offer some insight into the granules that were collected and brought to Earth in September, 2023 as part of NASA-led OSIRIS-REx mission.



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