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Meteorite May Help Solve Mystery Of Asteroid Bennu's Strange “Pebble Spitting” BehaviorPebbles ejected off the surface of asteroid Bennu were observed frequently by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.Meteorite May Help Solve Mystery Of Asteroid Bennu's Strange “Pebble Spitting” BehaviorPebbles ejected off the surface of asteroid Bennu were observed frequently by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

Meteorite May Help Solve Mystery Of Asteroid Bennu's Strange “Pebble Spitting” Behavior

Asteroid Bennu surprised astronomers in 2019 by spitting out small pebbles, and now a meteorite may offer clues on this odd behavior.

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Star Wreck Is An Unexpected Source Of the Most Extreme Cosmic RaysIllustration of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in space. Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

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When A Space Rock Survives Its Fall To Earth, We Are Getting Its BacksideFragments of the meteorite in the desert. Image Credit: P. Jenniskens, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center.

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Watch A Comet Getting Destroyed By The SunThe Sun during releasing solar flare (left) in 2013. Image Credit: NASA/SDOWatch A Comet Getting Destroyed By The SunThe Sun during releasing solar flare (left) in 2013. Image Credit: NASA/SDO
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