Scientists Studying Asteroid Sample Say it Could Have Come from Ocean World

[Michie]

Among the possible origins for the asteroid Bennu, which recently became the first asteroid ever sampled by a NASA mission, a surprising indication is that it may have come from a water world.

The development arose after researchers analyzed the mixture of rocks and dust from bodies beyond Earth, collectively called ‘regolith’, scooped up from Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2020.

A spacecraft was able to extract the sample and carry it 200 million miles back to Earth.

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Scientists Studying Asteroid Sample Say it Could Have Come from Ocean World

By maintaining their original composition it offers a glimpse into the early days of our solar system over 4.5 billion years ago.

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[awstar]

Among the possible origins for the asteroid Bennu, which recently became the first asteroid ever sampled by a NASA mission, a surprising indication is that it may have come from a water world.

The development arose after researchers analyzed the mixture of rocks and dust from bodies beyond Earth, collectively called ‘regolith’, scooped up from Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2020.

A spacecraft was able to extract the sample and carry it 200 million miles back to Earth.

Continued below.

Scientists Studying Asteroid Sample Say it Could Have Come from Ocean World

By maintaining their original composition it offers a glimpse into the early days of our solar system over 4.5 billion years ago.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org

not so surprising to those of us who read the works of scientists who believe the clear teaching of the Bible

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In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood - The Origin of Asteroids, Meteoroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

The Origin of Asteroids, Meteoroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

SUMMARY: The fountains of the great deep launched rocks and muddy water into space. As rocks moved farther from Earth, Earth’s gravity became less significant to them, and the gravity of nearby rocks became increasingly significant. Consequently, many rocks, assisted by their mutual gravity and surrounding clouds of water vapor that produced aerobraking, merged to become asteroids. (Isolated rocks in space are meteoroids.) Drag forces caused by water vapor and thrust forces produced by the radiometer effect concentrated most smaller asteroids in what is now the asteroid belt. Larger asteroids were acted by more powerful radiometer forces, which pushed them out beyond Neptune’s orbit, where they became trans-Neptunian objects. All the so-called “mavericks of the solar system” (asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and trans-Neptunian objects) resulted from the explosive events as the flood began.