Meteorites From Vesta Found on Asteroid Bennu
- 4 years ago
In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The new result sheds light on the intricate orbital dance of asteroids and on the violent origin of Bennu, which is a “rubble pile” asteroid that coalesced from the fragments of a massive collision.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/bennu-vesta-meteorites
Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/bennu-vesta-meteorites
Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center