--- Dante Lauretta, principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, discussing at a briefing what it has been like studying the asteroid Bennu, samples of which OSIRIS-REx is returning to Earth later this month, quoted in SN FirstUp, Friday, September 1, 2023
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Bennu is like an old friend at this point, even though it's a trickster. It likes to play jokes on us. It likes to challenge us. We thrive on that. I really feel a connection to this asteroid. It's holding these clues, and I think it wants us to study it, it wants us to unravel this mystery.
