Neil deGrasse Tyson

So do you know what else was discovered in those inclusions?

We don't want any fatty rocks on Mars.

We don't want any fatty rocks.

No, no, no.

We don't want them.

No fatty.

We'll take some acid, but no fatty acids.

No fatty acids.

sample from asteroid ruben i think about that it was a pandemic yeah of course of course i was crazy the name of a star wars character i have some it ought to be if it's not

So just to sort of celebrate the scientific profession, tell me what role the researcher Rigu played in your guys' approach to Bennu.

Because, you know, one mission stands on the shoulders of the previous mission.

That's how science works.

So were you able to answer or ask different questions of your samples because of what was learned in the previous

sample returns?

Yeah.

Excellent.

Now, is it true that every asteroid is the fragment of some larger parent body that got shattered early in the solar system?

And I ask that because Bennu, last I checked, is bigger than the Empire State Building, something like 500 meters across.

And so that seems like...

a big enough body to be its own body in in in the universe but tell me turn the clock back on this was there some proto-planet that had already sort of as you the gel just say differentiated its materials and then shattered to become Bennu and if that's the case you might be able to find other rocks that are like Bennu that are out there