{"id":729071,"date":"2022-07-07T16:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=729071"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:27:04","slug":"study-provides-new-insights-about-the-surface-and-structure-of-asteroid-bennu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=729071","title":{"rendered":"Study provides new insights about the surface and structure of asteroid Bennu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples from asteroid Bennu&#8217;s surface in 2020, forces measured during the interaction provided scientists with a direct test of the poorly understood near-subsurface physical properties of rubble-pile asteroids. Now, a Southwest Research Institute-led study has characterized the layer just below the asteroid&#8217;s surface as composed of weakly bound rock fragments containing twice the void space as the overall asteroid.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-07-insights-surface-asteroid-bennu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Study provides new insights about the surface and structure of asteroid Bennu<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples from asteroid Bennu&#8217;s surface in 2020, forces measured during the interaction provided scientists with a direct test of the poorly understood near-subsurface physical properties&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}