As a result, NASA says that stepping onto the asteroid would apparently feel like "stepping into a pit of plastic balls." Yes, like the ones at your local Chuck E. Cheese.

A near-Earth asteroid named Bennu has a loosely packed surface similar to a pit of plastic balls, according to NASA scientists. A spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid in October 2020 ...

That's because the surface of Bennu consists of loosely packed particles so lightly bound to each other that if a person were to step onto the asteroid surface it would feel like a pit of plastic ...

Maybe every dormitory room doesn't need 13,000 plastic balls. But David Nichol, a senior at Rice University, decided that his room needed just that, and he created a ball pit in which he and friends ...