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But they also chose it in part because Bennu is what is known as a near-Earth asteroid. Its orbit crosses Earth’s, and as soon as it was discovered in 1999, planetary scientists could see that ...
The mission marked NASA's first attempt to land on an asteroid and return a sample of one of these curious bodies back to Earth. Bennu orbits the Sun every 436.6 days. It is a rare, B-type ...
NASA scientists have a much greater understanding of a massive near-Earth asteroid, its upcoming closest approaches to Earth. Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system.
A NASA spacecraft returned to Earth on Sunday after a years-long mission to a nearby asteroid. A capsule containing pieces from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu separated from the spacecraft known as ...
Scientists are already ahead of the curve with asteroid Bennu, which was discovered in 1999. Skip to content. ... An asteroid will have a close encounter with Earth, NASA says.
On October 20, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will briefly touchdown on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and attempt the agency’s first sample collection from an asteroid that will be returned to ...
Asteroid Bennu, the destination of our #OSIRISREx mission, is classified as a hazardous near-Earth asteroid. Data gained from the spacecraft’s visit to Bennu has significantly improved models of ...
The bad news is the space rock has a slightly greater chance of slamming into us than previously thought. But the chances of that are still pretty low for the next century.
NASA scientists have a much greater understanding of a massive near-Earth asteroid, its upcoming closest approaches to Earth. Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system.
The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu's whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth ...