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   What asteroid is Bennu?

   • It was the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect an asteroid sample and bring it to Earth. Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid that is about one-third of a mile (half a kilometer) wide at its equator. An ancient relic of our solar system’s early days, asteroid Bennu has seen more than 4.5 billion years of history.

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   How did Bennu get its name?

   • BENNU WAS NAMED AFTER AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DEITY. Bennu was named in 2013 by a nine-year-old boy from North Carolina who won the Name that Asteroid! competition, a collaboration between the mission, the Planetary Society, and the LINEAR asteroid survey that discovered Bennu.

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   How close is Bennu to Earth?

   • By 2135, when Bennu’s shifted orbit is expected to bring it closer than the Moon, its flyby window grows wider, to 160,000 kilometers (nearly 100,000 miles). This will be Bennu’s closest approach to Earth over the five centuries for which we have reliable calculations.

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   What do astronomers know about Bennu?

   • Artist's view of a solar system forming. 7. It will help us better understand other asteroids Astronomers have studied Bennu from Earth since it was discovered in 1999. As a result, they think they know a lot about the asteroid's physical and chemical properties.

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   Why is Bennu important?

   • ASTEROIDS MAY HARBOR HINTS ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF ALL LIFE ON EARTH… Bennu 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.

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   How long did it take to find Bennu?

   • The quest to acquire fragments of Bennu began in 2016, when Nasa launched the Osiris-Rex probe towards the 500m (1,640ft) wide object. It took two years to reach the body and a further two years of mapping before the mission team could confidently identify a location on the space rock's surface to scoop up a "soil" sample.

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2. www.nasa.gov › solar-system › ten-things-to-knowTen Things to Know About Bennu - NASA

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   Oct 16, 2020 · Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid that hasn’t undergone drastic, composition-altering change, meaning that on and below its deeper-than-pitch-black surface are chemicals and rocks from the birth of the solar system.

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   Located between two young craters, located in rough terrain. Minerals vary in brightness with hints of hydrated minerals. On 12 December 2019, after a year of mapping Bennu's surface, a target site was announced.

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5. science.nasa.gov › solar-system › asteroidsBennu - NASA Science

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   Overview. Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid that is about one-third of a mile (half a kilometer) wide at its equator. An ancient relic of our solar system’s early days, asteroid Bennu has seen more than 4.5 billion years of history.

6. www.bbc.com › news › science-environment-66844738Osiris-Rex: Asteroid Bennu 'is a journey back to our origins'

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   Asteroid Bennu is a "rubble pile" - a loose collection of material left over from building the planets. The quest to acquire fragments of Bennu began in 2016, when Nasa launched the...

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   Dec 6, 2018 · Asteroid experts at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, project that Bennu will come close enough to Earth over the next century to pose a 1 in 2,700 chance of impacting it between 2175 and 2196.

9. science.nasa.gov › solar-system › why-bennu-10-reasonsWhy Bennu? 10 Reasons - NASA Science

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   Aug 20, 2018 · NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 1. It's close to Earth. Unlike most other asteroids that circle the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Bennu’s orbit is close in proximity to Earth's, even crossing it. The asteroid makes its closest approach to Earth every 6 years.

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    Image Article. This global map of asteroid Bennu’s surface is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft between Mar. 7 and Apr. 19, 2019. A total of 2,155 PolyCam images were stitched together and corrected to produce the mosaic.