NASA makes a series of very important revelations regarding an asteroid that recently visited the Earth at a very high speed, and disappeared in the universe without causing any damage to the Earths, fortunately. We are talking about an asteroid named Bennu, which passed by the Earth about a year ago, but the people from NASA have only now decided to make some revelations about what it brought for us.
NASA has chosen to classify this asteroid as an active one, and this means that various events take place on the surface that normally should not be visible on a rock of this type that travels through the universe. NASA sent a ship to orbit that asteroid in a mission called OSIRIX-REx, and according to the data received so far, it seems that that asteroid is actually made of several rocks.
NASA announces INCREDIBLE Discoveries about an Important ASTEROID
NASA claims that all these rocks are held together by gravity, and they form what from a distance appears to be a single asteroid, i.e. made up of a single rock, but in reality it is a much more complex group. More unusual than that is the fact that that asteroid slowly disintegrates, various parts of it being released into the universe as it moves at very high speed, without any particular target.
NASA failed to discover from the first analysis of the asteroid if there are pieces of it that disintegrate and disappear in the universe, but after a much more careful check, it finally came to this conclusion, which is quite normal. Considering this discovery, NASA classified Bennu as an active asteroid that loses pieces of the rocks that make it up in space, probably so that they eventually break up.
NASA managed for the first time to make an observation of this kind for an asteroid, and in general it happens very rarely to see rocks in the universe that have such behavior, so we are talking about a very interesting situation for everyone.
