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Ryugu vs. Bennu: Updates from the asteroids

SCIENTISTS WITH NASA’S Osiris-REX and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft provided preliminary results at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference regarding their respective explorations of near-Earth asteroids 101955 Bennu and 162173 Ryugu. A slew of papers in Nature, Nature Astronomy, Nature Geoscience and Science accompanied the presentations.

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