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Bennu isn't likely to hit Earth - but if it did, here's what would happen
Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid (NEA), whose orbit keeps it within 1.3 astronomical units of the Sun. (One astronomical unit, or AU, is the average Earth-Sun distance of 93 million ...
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The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large 'void' at its center. It may be spinning itself to death.
At the same time, Bennu was also flinging marble-size bits of rock away from its surface. Those crumbs entered orbit around the asteroid, and then some of them fell back to its surface.
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...
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Asteroid Bennu: Why the return of samples is so important... in 83 seconds
A capsule carrying precious samples from asteroid Bennu landed on Earth on Sunday ... Space Station send a festive message from orbit, some 250 miles (400km) above Earth. Elizabeth Rizzini ...
SETI17d
Amino Acids on Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Clues to Life’s Origins
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
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‘Asteroid Bennu’s mystery’: Could it hold the missing link to Earth’s first life?
A new study suggests Bennu may have formed beyond Saturn’s orbit, carrying materials from the coldest regions of the solar system. Berkeley Lab plans further infrared and X-ray analysis of Bennu ...
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Project Asteroid: Mapping Bennu
In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...
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'Bennu, Apophis and more': List of NASA's 'Most Wanted' asteroids that could threaten Earth
If Bennu were to collide with the planet ... This asteroid hasn’t been seen since 2007, making its exact orbit unclear. There is a very low probability (1 in 10 million) that 2007 FT3 could ...
Phys.org27d
Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
Meanwhile, the Bennu samples revealed comet particles and ... using its lunar transfer orbit. Clearly, if we are going to routinely explore many of the PHA (and even prospect them for asteroid ...
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Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists search for elusive dark matter throughout the universe
According to Tsai, Bennu is just the beginning ... That’s closer than some satellites currently in orbit. The close call will give NASA another chance to collect samples and data on the asteroid ...