{"id":89365,"date":"2025-08-22T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89365\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:55:08","slug":"asteroid-bennu-reveals-particles-older-than-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89365\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Bennu reveals particles older than the solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONGUEUIL, QC, Aug. 22, 2025 \/CNW\/ – Canadian researchers<\/a>, members of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx<\/a> international science team, have contributed to new studies related to the sample collected from asteroid Bennu.<\/p>\n

Three scientific articles published today in\u00a0Nature Astronomy\u00a0and\u00a0Nature Geoscience\u00a0reveal that Bennu contains:<\/p>\n

Stardust grains older than our solar system
\n Interstellar organic matter (likely formed beyond our solar system)
\n High-temperature minerals that formed closer to the Sun<\/p>\n

Learn more:\u00a0Fascinating news about Bennu<\/a><\/p>\n

For interviews with a CSA expert and more details about the Canadian discoveries, please contact the Media Relations Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Canada’s role in the OSIRIS-REx Mission<\/p>\n

These new findings highlight the importance of asteroid sample return missions like OSIRIS-REx. A Canadian lidar instrument<\/a> was used to help select the Bennu sample site. In exchange for this contribution, Canada will receive 4% of the sample, making it the fifth country to preserve and study a sample collected from space. It’s also thanks to this contribution that Canadian researchers are part of the international science team.<\/p>\n

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Contact information: Canadian Space Agency, Media Relations Office, Telephone: 450-926-4370, Email: [email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONGUEUIL, QC, Aug. 22, 2025 \/CNW\/ – Canadian researchers, members of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx international science team, have contributed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[34327,49,48,52878,52877,10499,6811,49360,66,49359,64],"class_list":["post-89365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-aerospace","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-federal-government","tag-canadian-space-agency","tag-defense","tag-engineering","tag-math","tag-science","tag-stem-science","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}