Alignment of fractures on Bennu’s boulders indicative of rapid asteroid surface evolution - Nature Geoscience

Some asteroids 'aged early' by sun, NASA finds NASAGoddard NatureGeosci

This material is based on work supported by NASA under contract NNM10AA11C issued through the New Frontiers Program. We are grateful to the entire OSIRIS-REx team for making the encounter with Bennu possible, to C. Wolner for editorial help and to the OPAL infrastructure of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur for providing computational resources and support. M.D. and C.A. acknowledge the French space agency CNES and support from ANR ‘ORIGINS’ . M.P.

Durda for useful comments that improved our manuscript.Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice, FranceUniversité Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Géoazur, Sophia-Antipolis, Valbonne, FranceJ.

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