Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
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/...
Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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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: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13707
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/...
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: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13707
