Meteorites From Vesta Found on Asteroid Bennu

Meteorites From Vesta Found on Asteroid Bennu

In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The new result sheds light on the intricate orbital dance of asteroids and on the violent origin of Bennu, which is a “rubble pile” asteroid that coalesced from the fragments of a massive collision. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/bennu-vesta-meteorites Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Lead Animator Narrator Lead Editor William Steigerwald (NASA/GSFC): Lead Writer Daniella DellaGiustina (University of Arizona/LPL): Scientist Hannah Kaplan (NASA/GSFC): Scientist Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Music is "Mechanical Systems" by David Edwards, via Universal Production Music. This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13707 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc