Latest Space Breaking News: Spectral analysis suggests asteroids Bennu and Ryugu are part of Polana family

Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-08-spectral-analysis-asteroids-bennu-ryugu.html

Summary: A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the hypothesis that they were originally part of the Polana collisional family in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.