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Tiny fragment of asteroid giving Field Museum scientists a glimpse 4.6 billion years into the past
The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...
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NASA raises the odds that an asteroid could hit the moon in 2032
YR4, once considered the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, is back in the spotlight — this time due to a slight ...
Asteroid speck at the Field Museum could hold the key to life
Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...
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NASA Plucked an Asteroid From Space. Now Researchers at the Field Will Probe It for Signs of the Origin of Life
A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...
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China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft sends home 1st photo as it heads for mysterious 'quasi-moon' asteroid
The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a ...
Unique asteroid sample lands at the Field Museum
The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...
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NASA Warns Of 250-ft Building-Sized Asteroid Passing Earth Today At 45,529 KMPH: Should We Be Worried?
A massive 250-foot asteroid named 2015 XR1 is hurtling past Earth today at over 45,000 kilometres per hour., Science News - ...
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Space rock from asteroid Bennu arrives at Chicago Field Museum for rare study
The Field Museum received a rare, pristine sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA — a "time capsule" from the early solar system, ...