OSIRIS-REx finds possible pieces of Vesta on Bennu

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 22, 2020

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. "We found six boulders ranging i