Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome back to Science News. In this episode we will be covering
- Strange asteroid may contain elements outside the periodic table!
- Scientist manage to deflect a powerful laser beam with air
- New data suggests Earth was struck with the largest recorded Solar event 14,000 years ago
- and finally NASA unveil what was in the sample returned from asteroid Bennu.

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References:
Asteroid may contain elements outside the periodic table
iflscience.com/asteroid-33-polyhymnia-may-contain-elements-outside-the-periodic-table-71076#lnok1sb00y5e0tlfbcac
arxiv.org/pdf/2306.11989.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Polyhymnia

Laser deflected using sound
interestingengineering.com/science/bend-laser-beams-sound-waves

Earth hit by largest ever solar storm that would have devastated civilisation today
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2022.0206
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau0747
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2022.0497

Osiris-Rex - reveals evidence of water and carbon in the returned sample
theconversation.com/osiris-rex-nasa-reveals-evidence-of-water-and-carbon-in-sample-delivered-to-earth-from-an-asteroid-215484
nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-bennu-asteroid-sample-contains-carbon-water

00:00 Introduction
00:30 Asteroid with Exotic Materials
03:40 Laser deflected with Air
05:22 Largest Solar Storm 14k B.P.
09:07 Bennu sample returned to Earth