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a capsule carrying rocks and dust from
near-earth asteroid bennu made landfall
near Salt Lake City Utah once the
capsule landed a recovery team whisked
away to a clean room it will now be
processed at the Johnson Space Center in
Houston the contents of the capsule May
hold clues about the birth of our solar
system or even how life might have
emerged on our planet the osiris-rex
spacecraft launched in 2016. its first
Target bennu a carbon-rich asteroid with
an orbit that brings it close to Earth
every six years in 2020 the spacecraft
touched down on bennu capturing material
from its surface scientists think
asteroids like Banu or remnants left
over from the earliest periods in the
history of our solar system and they may
contain records of what kind of material
was present billions of years ago when
planets were formed
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