Bennu

101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999.

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Dust from asteroid Bennu shows: Building blocks of life and possible habitats were widespread in our solar system - EurekAlert

Life’s building blocks in Bennu samples - EurekAlert

Muestra de la NASA del asteroide Bennu revela un ‘caldo’ con los ingredientes de la vida

Traces of ancient brine discovered on the asteroid Bennu contain minerals crucial to life - EurekAlert

Traces of ancient brine discovered on the asteroid Bennu contain minerals crucial to life - EurekAlert

Life’s ingredients have been found in samples from asteroid Bennu

A Year With Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Reveals Intriguing Clues to Origin of Life on Earth

Asteroid Sample Surprise: Bennu Holds the Solar System’s “Original Ingredients”

A sample from asteroid Bennu contains organic compounds usually found at midocean ridges on Earth, suggesting Bennu may have been part of an ancient ocean world

Phosphate in NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample suggests space rock Bennu hails from an ocean world

NASA has more than twice the asteroid Bennu samples it could have hoped for from OSIRIS-REx probe

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx nabbed over 120 grams of space rocks from asteroid Bennu

1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world'

The opened OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with the asteroid samples from the asteroid Bennu. [11648*8736]

NASA finally opens capsule to potentially hazardous asteroid 'Bennu' that may contain seeds of life

At last! NASA finally frees lid of asteroid Bennu sample capsule after battling stuck fasteners

'What is that material?': Potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu stumps scientists with its odd makeup

‘It’s amazing’: scientists analyse 4.6bn-year-old dark dust from Bennu asteroid

How NASA Captured Asteroid Dust to Find the Origins of Life | The sample of the space rock Bennu that OSIRIS-REx collected could unlock an ancient existential mystery

Smithsonian debuts 1st display of asteroid Bennu sample brought back by OSIRIS-REx