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"},"content":{"rendered":"Nature Geoscience and Nature Astronomy\u00a0<\/em> Paper 1<\/strong><\/a> Paper 2<\/strong><\/a> Paper 3<\/strong><\/a> Nature Geoscience and Nature Astronomy\u00a0 Published\u00a0March 19, 2019 13:30 EDT (News release from Nature Research Press) Early observations from instruments aboard NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft confirm the presence of widespread and abundant hydrated minerals on near-Earth asteroid Bennu and the unexpected presence of numerous, large boulders, suggesting\u00a0that Bennu is between 100 million and one billion years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1J8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPublished\u00a0March 19, 2019 13:30 EDT<\/strong> (News release<\/a> from Nature Research Press)
\nEarly observations from instruments aboard NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft confirm the presence of widespread and abundant hydrated minerals on near-Earth asteroid Bennu and the unexpected presence of numerous, large boulders, suggesting\u00a0that Bennu is between 100 million and one billion years old and likely originated in the main asteroid belt. A series of papers reports on the observations.<\/p>\n
\nCanadian co-author:<\/strong> Hannah Susorney, University of British Columbia – hsusorney@eoas.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCanadian co-author: <\/strong>Michael Daly, York University – dalym@yorku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCanadian co-author: <\/strong>Ed Cloutis, University of Winnipeg –\u00a0e.cloutis@uwinnipeg.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"