NASA's OSIRIS-REx lands samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth after historic 4-billion-mile journey

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NASA successfully recovered a capsule containing samples of asteroid Bennu taken by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020.

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[DrRaviSharma]

What detailed precautions are being taken to open this sample to Earth's environment such as outgassing decontamination?

It is first sample from farther than moon.
but even for moon samples from China, what are protocols.

These should be more stringent than Apollo samples as there could be non-earthlike materials especially particles and embedded meteorites and small chances of organic materials.
Ravi
(Dr. Ravi Sharma, Ph.D. USA)
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