Bennu Asteroid Samples Suggest Origin Involving Jupiter

The asteroid Bennu orbits the sun once every 1.2 years and approaches Earth every six years, passing within around 300,000 kilometers. NASA utilized this orbital pattern to collect material from the celestial body. In 2023, the US space agency executed a spectacular operation in which its OSIRIS-REx probe collected samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu.

These samples indicate a surprising origin involving Jupiter.