Young Jupiter May Have Filtered the Dust That Built Asteroid Bennu, Study of NASA Samples Suggests
Nature World News | 01.10.2026 21:30Asteroid Bennu, the near-Earth space rock NASA sampled with its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, probably took shape in a zone influenced by a young, still-growing Jupiter, according to a study published Sept. 23 in Science Advances. Researchers at ETH Zurich propose that Jupiter acted as a filter, holding back coarse material while fine dust from different parts of the early solar system flowed around it and mixed.
