Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu ... the size of the impactor that created Meteor Crater ...
behemoth that created the Chixulub crater and wiped out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. However, even a Bennu-size asteroid could drastically reduce global food production and lead to ...
Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth ... It would also leave a large crater and eject debris upward. Ecosystems would spend years reckoning with the impact of large quantities of ...
About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing ... Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu currently poses the greatest risk ...