Bennu spitting out pebbles (IMAGE)

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Bennu spitting out pebbles

Caption

Pebbles ejected off the surface of asteroid Bennu were observed frequently by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. This observation inspired this study.

Credit

NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin.

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License

Public Domain

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