The Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx teams have unexpectedly found bright boulders on their respective dark asteroids, Ryugu and Bennu, which provide solid clues about the composition and origin of impacting bodies in their formation history.
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De Sanctis, M.C. Asteroid smashing, mixing and forming. Nat Astron 5, 9–10 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1206-0
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