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NASA Mission Helps Solve a Mystery: Researchers Figure Out Why Asteroid Bennu Is So Surprisingly Rocky. The team concluded that very little fine regolith is produced from Bennu's highly porous rocks because these are compressed rather than fragmented by meteoroid impacts.


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