EXPERT REACTION: NASA's OSIRIS-REx digs for dirt on asteroid Bennu
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NASA has just successfully landed the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on a lumpy asteroid called Bennu and collected a sample of dirt from the surface to try and help us decipher how the solar system formed.
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Professor Volker Hessel is Research Director of the Centre for Sustainable Planetary and Space Resources at the University of Adelaide