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Let's go with breakthrough of the year.
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Freeberg, what's your breakthrough of
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the year?
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>> Okay, we haven't talked about it on the
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show. This definitely deserves a science
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corner, but asteroid Bennu, NASA sent a
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probe. They pulled a bunch of samples up
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in 2020. They landed back on Earth 2023.
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2 days ago, they showed that on asteroid
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Bennu, there is nucleic acids, there are
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amino acids, there are sugars. All of
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the building blocks of life were found
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on this asteroid floating through space.
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Wow. This is going to end up being one
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of the most like amazing discoveries of
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our lifetime because it really does show
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that life is not necessarily unique to
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planet Earth. This was a asteroid that's
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been floating around for 4 and a half
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billion years and it's got all the
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components of life on it. It's pretty
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incredible discovery.
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It's amazing.
