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  • Let's go a handle of it.

  • Three stars in a row.

  • Give us some extra e.

  • Uh, sure, it is not always good when space rocks fall to Earth.

  • But fortunately, you know, this was very controlled.

  • In fact, it was an amazing technological achievement.

  • And this sample coming back in a little metal capsule of sort of human made flying saucer, if you will, coming back from this 4.6 billion years old Asteroid re Hugo, which is just about 900 m in diameter but absolutely pristine rock.

  • It is still in a box.

  • But, you know, just being exposed to the air and the radiation on Earth from the sun means that the sample may change.

  • So you just have to make sure that it remains really airtight and capture those gasses that were trapped inside the rock samples because they're the really exciting key toe.

  • What things were like 4.6 billion years or so ago.

Let's go a handle of it.

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