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Sci Tech    H4'ed 9/27/16

A Plastic Cup And A Shop Vacuum Could Rewrite The History Of The Solar System

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Little Bennu holds keys to how we got here, and could hold our destiny, as well.

It’s also relatively likely that Bennu get too close to Earth for comfort by the late 22nd century: orbital models show a 1-in-2700 chance that the asteroid could smash into us, releasing the force of 2750 megatons of TNT and potentially devastating an area the size of Tucson, Arizona.

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