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Universe Today

Asteroid Bennu Has an Identity Crisis, and Jupiter Might Be to Blame

Asteroid sample return missions have brought well preserved samples of the early solar system (that hadn’t been roasted in a fireball) back to Earth for the first time. But those samples, like the OSIRIS-REx sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu, sometimes provide more questions than answers. A new paper, published in Science Advances from researchers at ETH Zurich and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, highlights one of those questions - why Bennu appears to have been born in both the inner and outer solar system - and a possible answer to it.

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ESA

Beyond the airlock - Sophie Adenot's three spacewalks

Video: 00:08:40 For ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, her first steps into space were only the beginning.In less than 15 days, she performed three extravehicular activities, or EVAs, spending 19 hours and 42 minutes outside the International Space Station.Across three demanding spacewalks, Sophie and her crewmates replaced critical Station hardware, installed a new communications antenna, carried out maintenance, and prepared experiments for future work, all while adapting to the challenges of working in the extreme environment of space.From her very first spacewalk to leading her third as EV1, Sop

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