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Smithsonian debuts 1st display of asteroid Bennu sample brought back by OSIRIS-REx

November 4, 2023
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Smithsonian debuts 1st display of asteroid Bennu sample brought back by OSIRIS-REx
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A small black stone from the asteroid Bennu is seen on on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. after being returned to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
(Image credit: Smithsonian/James Di Loreto and Phillip R. Lee)

A sizable crowd turned out to see a small rock on Friday (Nov. 3), as the Smithsonian debuted the first display of a piece of the asteroid Bennu from the sample brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.

The institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. hosted NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other space agency and Smithsonian officials at an unveiling ceremony for the well-traveled pebble. The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft safely landed its sample return capsule on Sept. 24 in the Utah desert, completing a 2.5-year, 1.4-billion-mile (2.3-billion-kilometer) journey from asteroid Bennu.

“I am beyond excited to welcome you to the National Museum of Natural History for a moment I started dreaming of 20 years ago,” said Tim McCoy, the museum’s curator of meteorites and a member of the OSIRIS-REx science team. “That [a] sample of an asteroid returned by a spacecraft would join us here.”

“What we are doing today is a just a milestone. It is a start in where we are going,” he said. “Where we are going is trying to use this sample to really understand our unique planet.”

Related: NASA’s 1st asteroid sample is rich in carbon and water, OSIRIS-REx team finds

About 50 people, including members of the press and public, crammed into the meteorites section of the museum’s Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals to be among the first to see the Bennu sample go on display. Presented within a stainless steel bottle with a glass viewing port, the jet black rock is enveloped in a pure-nitrogen environment to keep it pristine.

Flanking the display of the roughly 0.3-inch-diameter (8-millimeter), 0.005-ounce (143-milligram) stone are two models. On its left, is a 1:84 scale replica of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket that powered the start the asteroid sample return mission in 2016. On the right, is a 1:24 scale model of the Lockheed Martin-built OSIRIS-REx probe.

In addition to the Bennu sample, visitors to the Smithsonian's National Museum of National History in Washington, D.C. can also see scale models of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and the Atlas V 411 rocket that carried the spacecraft.

In addition to the Bennu sample, visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of National History in Washington, D.C. can also see scale models of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and the Atlas V 411 rocket that carried the spacecraft. (Image credit: Smithsonian/James Di Loreto and Phillip R. Lee)

“Could this fragment of an asteroid hold information about the beginnings of our solar system and the formation of life on Earth?” reads the backdrop for Bennu sample display. “Scientists can now study the water-rich minerals and carbon-rich molecules formed before life contained within to better understand the origins of the Solar System, Earth’s oceans and life itself.”

A CT (computer tomography) scan of the fragment — labeled by NASA scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston as OREX-800027-0 — showed that the stone is made up of dozens of smaller rocks that were fragments cemented back together and that the entire piece was heavily altered by water, producing clays, iron oxides, iron sulfides and carbonates as its major minerals, along with carbon.

The OSIRIS-REx Bennu sample display case (at far left) now on view in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals meteorite gallery at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

The OSIRIS-REx Bennu sample display case (at far left) now on view in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals meteorite gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. (Image credit: Smithsonian/James Di Loreto and Phillip R. Lee)

“It was really a matter of finding a stone that we thought was typical of the kind of material [that was brought back] and we needed something that was durable. To put this in here, it needed to be transported across the country,” said McCoy of how this specific rock was chosen for display. “We [also] wanted something that was photogenic, so something that was relatively flat.”

NASA scientists narrowed the selection to five or six candidate stones.

“It was sort of the Goldilocks effect — this one was too big, that one was a little too small and they found one that was just right,” said McCoy. “And that’s what we get to share with the American public.”

In addition to the stone now on display, the Smithsonian was also loaned another Bennu fragment for scientific study.

Two additional rocks will follow on display at the University of Arizona’s Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum in Tucson and at Space Center Houston, located adjacent to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas, where most of the Bennu samples reside for scientific study. Opening dates for those exhibits are still to be announced, though may be as soon as Nov. 15 according to one of the venues.

Click through to collectSPACE to view an X-ray CT scan rendering of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu sample that is now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

Follow collectSPACE.com on Facebook and on Twitter at @collectSPACE. Copyright 2023 collectSPACE.com. All rights reserved.

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Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of “Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.

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