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Bookmark or Share- Ten Things to Know About Bennu - NASABennu is a primordial artifact preserved in the vacuum of space, orbiting among planets and moons and asteroids and comets. Because it is so old, Bennu could be made of material containing molecules that were present when life first formed on Earth.
- OSIRIS-REx - Science@NASALaunched on Sept. 8, 2016, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, spacecraft traveled to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36).
- NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, WaterInitial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock.
- Asteroid Bennu now has a greater chance of hitting Earth through 2300 ...The findings show Bennu has a 1 in 1,750 chance of impacting Earth through 2300 – higher than previously thought. This is a view of the Nightingale sample site on asteroid Bennu after the ...
- Planetary Defense: The Bennu Experiment - NASAHow scientists predict Bennu’s whereabouts. About a third of a mile, or half a kilometer, wide, Bennu is large enough to reach Earth’s surface; many smaller space objects, in contrast, burn up in our atmosphere. If it impacted Earth, Bennu would cause widespread damage.
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