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NASA’s Asteroid Samples May Be Crumbs From an Ancient Ocean World

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After months of frustration, NASA finally got the Bennu asteroid sample container open in January, revealing the large amounts of asteroid scooped up by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Now, a top member of the mission says the distant hunk of space rock may be a planetesimal—a planet’s building block—that once belonged to…

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Source: gizmodo.com