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101955 Bennu - Wikipedia Bennu's basic mineralogy and chemical nature would have been established during the first 10 million years of the Solar System's formation, where the carbonaceous material underwent some geologic heating and chemical transformation inside a much larger planetoid or a proto-planet capable of producing the requisite pressure, heat and hydration
Ten Things to Know About Bennu - NASA Bennu is a primordial artifact preserved in the vacuum of space, orbiting among planets and moons and asteroids and comets Because it is so old, Bennu could be made of material containing molecules that were present when life first formed on Earth
Bennu - Wikipedia New Kingdom artwork shows Bennu as a huge grey heron with a long beak and a two-feathered crest Sometimes Bennu is depicted as perched on a benben stone (representing Ra and the name of the top stone of a pyramid) or in a willow tree (representing Osiris)
Bennu - NASA Science Bennu is a relatively small asteroid that passes close to Earth about every six years Bennu was the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx, the first U S mission to collect a sample from an asteroid and deliver it to Earth on Sept 24, 2023
Bennu Asteroid Reveals Its Contents to Scientists Bennu’s parent asteroid likely broke apart 1 to 2 billion years ago, and some of the fragments came together to form the rubble pile we know as Bennu These minerals are also found on icy bodies in the outer solar system
NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients Ranging from calcite to halite and sylvite, scientists identified traces of 11 minerals in the Bennu sample that form as water containing dissolved salts evaporates over long periods of time, leaving behind the salts as solid crystals