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Asteroid Bennu particles coat the base of the OSIRIS-REx science canister. One of these small fragments, or one like them, is headed for public display at the Smithsonian on Nov. 3.The public will get its first direct look at a fragment of the asteroid Bennu next week when the Smithsonian debuts its display of the NASA-returned space rock sample.
"Having now returned to Earth without being exposed to our water-rich atmosphere or the life that fills every corner of our planet, the samples of Bennu hold the promise to tell us about the water and organics before life came to form our unique planet," said Tim McCoy, the National Museum of Natural History's curator of meteorites. McCoy has worked on the OSIRIS-REx mission for nearly two decades as part of an international team of scientists.
NASA can't open its OSIRIS-REx asteroid capsule yet, but the outside alone holds more than enough samples "We don't want to take anything that is going to have the most scientific value, so we are looking for things that we have more than one of," Francis McCubbin, an astromaterials curator at Johnson Space Center, said at an Oct. 11 press conference in response to a question from collectSPACE.com."Usually we want at least four of any type of thing before we start using it for something else, and those are the samples that are going to go the museums.
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