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Articles on Asteroid Bennu
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Two new studies show that the majority of meteorites originate from just one family of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
The mission provided details about how to deflect an asteroid should one threaten Earth in future.
Studying the sample could help answer how water arrived on Earth and how life started.
Bennu will tell us about our own origins as much as about the origin of asteroid Bennu.
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Space Projects Manager & Mission Design Lead, University of Portsmouth
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