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New research reveals details of the surface composition of loosely bound rubble pile asteroids such as Bennu.

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. On October 20, an uncrewed spacecraft roughly the size of a Sprinter van and traveling at the glacial pace of 10 centimeters per second collided with an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth. The OSIRIS-REx craft’s proboscis-like “Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism” (Tagsam), an 11-foot-long shock absorber tipped by a round vacuum head and a collection canister, touched down atop a boulder on the asteroid Bennu’s...