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A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Mineralogy is the study of minerals, the building blocks of rocks, which are naturally-occurring, crystalline solids with a set chemical make-up. This includes the study of the chemical ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away. It ...

The near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu is drawing concern due to its potential collision course with Earth, with scientists calculating a one-in-2,700 chance of impact by September 2182. At its ...

To model the collision, the researchers used the IBS Aleph supercomputer and ran several scenarios. The worst-case scenario involves 400 million tons of dust, aerosols, debris, and ash entering the ...

Scientists Predict Devastation if Asteroid Bennu Strikes Earth in 2182 By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making ...

Analysing returned samples Tim McCoy (right), curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and research geologist Cari Corrigan examine scanning electron microscope ...

(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid ...

The researchers used climate models and the aid of the Aleph supercomputer at ICCP to run different scenarios for a Bennu-type collision with Earth, largely focusing on the effects of injecting ...