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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 ...
‘Asteroid Bennu’s mystery’: Could it hold the missing link to Earth’s first life?
Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...
Asteroid Bennu Holds Traces of Ancient Water – And Maybe Life’s Origins
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
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Your DNA's Codes Are (Probably) From Outer Space
Samples were collected before an easy escape from Bennu’s frankly pathetic excuse for a gravitational field. OSIRIS-REx rejoined Earth’s solar orbit and dropped its sample capsule into ...
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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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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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‘The fifth force of nature’: An asteroid could hold clue to one of the biggest cosmic mysteries
Researchers meticulously tracked Bennu’s orbit using OSIRIS-REx spacecraft data, exploring whether unknown forces, such as a fifth force, could be affecting its path around the Sun. The study ...
SETI10d
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, ...
New Scientist20d
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 ...
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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 ...