NASA's OSIRIS-REx to asteroid Bennu: 'You've got a little Vesta on you'
Published Date: 9/22/2020
Source: phys.org
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.