Smithsonian scientists examining scanning electron microscope images of a Bennu sample (IMAGE)

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Smithsonian scientists examining scanning electron microscope images of a Bennu sample

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Tim McCoy (right), the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History curator of meteorites and the co-lead author on the new paper, with Cari Corrigan (left) sein a scanning electron microscopy lab in the museum’s Department of Mineral Sciences examining scanning electron microscope images of a Bennu sample.

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James Di Loreto, Smithsonian.

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