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Harold Connolly Jr.

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
428 total appearances

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Yeah.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Recently came out.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

The...

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

The minerals that were there in large veins of what are probably a mineral called gypsum and associated minerals are minerals that form through a fluid.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Precipitation, they're evaporating minerals.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

They have to come out of this fluid that is there, and the fluid's evaporating.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

And other minerals that are there, such as vivianite, which is a phosphate mineral.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Here we go, phosphorus again.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

One of the...

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

It's a hydrated mineral, so it has water attached to it, which makes it structure.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

And then gregite is another mineral that form, and that's an iron sulfur-rich mineral.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

But that is an interesting mineral because it's on a pathway.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

The final product forming would be pyrite, which everybody knows is school scope.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

The mineral before that is not an all right, big name, but that mineral was recently discovered in both Rugu and Bennu for the first time.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Now, why is this mineral important?

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Because it's sampling different abundances of oxygen that is around in order to produce itself.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

Oh, that's a great question.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

We assume it's coming from a fluid interaction, a fluid that has evolved.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

But how that fluid's evolving, I don't know.

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Secrets of Asteroid Bennu with Harold Connolly Jr.

When that fluid evolved, I don't know.