101955 Bennu (English Wikipedia)

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MacDonald, Cheyenne (13 January 2024). "NASA finally got the stuck lid off its asteroid Bennu sample container – Thanks to some stubborn fasteners, the agency spent three months locked out of the sample OSIRIS-REx dropped off". Engadget. Archived from the original on 14 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
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Barnouin, O.S. (19 March 2019). "Shape of (101955) Bennu indicative of a rubble pile with internal stiffness". Nature Geoscience. 12 (4): 247–252. Bibcode:2019NatGe..12..247B. doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0330-x. PMC 6505705. PMID 31080497.
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Simon, A.A.; Kaplan, H.H.; Hamilton, V.E.; Lauretta, D.S.; Campins, H.; Emery, J.P.; Barucci, M.A.; DellaGiustina, D. N; Reuter D.C.; Sandford S.A.; Golish D.R.; Lim L.F.; Ryan A.; Rozitis B.; Bennett C.A. (8 October 2020). "Widespread carbon-bearing materials on near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu" (PDF). Science. 370 (6517): eabc3522. Bibcode:2020Sci...370.3522S. doi:10.1126/science.abc3522. PMID 33033153. S2CID 222236203. water-rich, similar to the CM class of chondrites
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