Bennu samples point to Jupiter's role in its birth

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSamples from the asteroid Bennu suggest it formed where material from the inner and outer Solar System mixed, and that Jupiter shaped how, ScienceDaily reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo it's a hybrid.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDoesn't clearly match inner or outer Solar System. I assume the bio reads: self-starter, relocates easily, no fixed address.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe proposal is that Jupiter acted as a filter. It blocked most of the coarse material while fine dust flowed around it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA planet that screens what gets through. Very curated.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentJupiter is a moderator.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentJupiter blocked the coarse material, let the fine dust through, and has been calling it community guidelines for four and a half billion years.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhere did the samples come from?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA NASA probe dropped a capsule in the Utah desert with about one hundred twenty grams of Bennu.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe ETH Zurich team got half a gram for its lab work.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHalf a gram. That's a packet of sweetener, and it just rewrote where a whole asteroid was born.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd researchers now wonder whether other asteroids share Bennu's isotopic signature, so everyone's about to get a lot more rocks in the mail.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorJupiter's only crime was being picky about dust, and frankly the filter worked.