Holy crap, that's a HUGE surprise and opens the possibility that signs of life could also be found!
"Asteroid Bennu may be a fragment of an ancient ocean world. That's still highly speculative. But it's the best lead I have right now to explain the origin of that material," principal investigator for OSIRIS-REx, Dante Lauretta of University of Arizona said.
☄️ Sample From Distant Asteroid Shows Signs of Originating on Ocean World
— Fururism
"He claims the thin and bright crust of Bennu's otherwise dark rock is made of a rare calcium and magnesium-rich phosphate, the same material that's been found to shoot from the vents on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, a moon that's widely believed to be an ocean world with a vast reservoir of liquid water beneath a thick shell of ice."
If an #Asteroid (or similar) is flying directly towards #earth and is not supposed to hit earth on exactly that very calendar day today or in future, then this is actually good news: for most cases, an object needs to target a future position of the moving earth around the sun and not our current position. 🤓
Am Wochenende war der Asteroid "2024BX1" über Brandenburg verglüht. Bei den im Havelland gefundenen Gesteinsbrocken handelt es sich "sehr, sehr, sehr wahrscheinlich" um einen Meteoriten - einen Überrest des Asteroiden.
A small #asteroid about 3 feet in size disintegrated harmlessly over Germany on Sunday. At 95 minutes before it impacted Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s Scout impact hazard assessment system, which monitors data on potential asteroid discoveries, gave advance warning as to where and when the asteroid would impact. This is the 8th time in history that a small Earth-bound asteroid has been detected while still in space, before entering and disintegrating in our atmosphere. https://yubanet.com/scitech/nasa-system-predicts-impact-of-a-very-small-asteroid-over-germany/
Fascinating story about how the system #Scout predicted the impact of small (1m) asteroid 2024 BX1 on Earth, in Germany.
The asteroid was first observed less than three hours before its impact by Krisztián Sárneczky at Piszkéstető Mountain Station of the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary.
The #meteorite hunt is on near Berlin!
“In the late-night hours of January 21, 2024 – 90 minutes before impact over European skies – NASA said a small #asteroid would hit Earth’s atmosphere. The #space rock struck on schedule above an area west of #Berlin, Germany.”
> Spektakuläres Schauspiel am Himmel über Brandenburg: In der Nacht zum Sonntag ist ein erst kurz zuvor entdeckter Asteroid beim Eintritt in die Atmosphäre zerbrochen. Nun wird am Boden nach Überresten gesucht.
Sogar das Weltall schickt Verstärkung gegen die :AFD:
Asteroid "Sar2736" verglüht am Brandenburger Nachthimmel
Ein Asteroid ist beim Eintritt in die Erdatmosphäre über Brandenburg verglüht. Der Feuerball war in der Nacht bis nach Leipzig und Prag zu sehen. Bruchstücke des Himmelskörpers werden im Havelland vermutet.
‼️ IMMINENT ASTEROID ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY ‼️
In 53 minutes, on January 21st, ~00h 32min UT, a small freshly discovered 1-m diameter asteroid, Sar27367 is to enter the Earth atmosphere above North-Eastern Germany (lat. ~ 52.54494°N, lon. ~ 12.52813°E). #space#astronomy#asteroid https://twitter.com/IMOmeteors/status/1748847770612453655
Les voilà ! Les fameux grains collectés par la sonde OSIRIS-REx 🇺🇲 dont l'accès dans la capsule était rendu complexe par des vis récalcitrantes.
Le plus gros grain fait 1 cm. Notez la diversité de morphologie, de texture et de brillance. De la science à venir ! 🔬
On #Chesapeake#Asteroid#Day 35 million years ago, if you were standing in what is now D.C., you may have seen a blinding flash of light arcing across the sky from the northwest.
At a speed of 11 miles per second, the two- to five-mile-wide asteroid struck 200 miles away at Cape Charles, which was underwater back then.
The asteroid burst through 600 to 1,500 feet of ocean before penetrating five miles into the seafloor.
It was as if Earth got shot with a bullet.
Fractures were driven as deep as seven miles.
Judging by other similar impacts, rock in the crater could have superheated to 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than lava.
To be fair, the asteroid didn’t fare any better than the earth.
It was instantly vaporized into gas by the heat and energy of the impact.
As water and sediment rushed back into the crater, the edge expanded beyond the 17-mile-wide hole carved by the asteroid, widening the crater to 25 miles. https://boundarystones.weta.org/2024/01/05/dmvs-worst-natural-disaster-chesapeake-bay-asteroid