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

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The capsule containing pieces from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, ... The asteroid was named after an Egyptian deity in 2013 by a nine-year-old boy from North Carolina.

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Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2182.

The OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission delivered pieces of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, before moving on to study asteroid Apophis in 2029.

A Bennu sample on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History after it was unveiled to museumgoers Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. James Di Loreto and Phillip R. Lee, Smithsonian. A new ...

Named after a mythical ancient Egyptian king murdered by his own brother, the OSIRIS-REx mission, ... Space.com: OSIRIS-REx is about to deliver a piece of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24.

It’s only been about a week since NASA successfully inserted its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe into orbit around the large space rock known as Bennu, after … ...

Bennu – an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the sun associated with creation and rebirth. And apparently, this student thought the touch-and-go device was shaped similar to a heron.

Bennu is an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the Sun, creation, and rebirth. Asteroid Bennu’s parent body was likely a salty, wet environment – one surprisingly like a lakebed on Earth.

Viewed from afar, Bennu (named after an Egyptian god of creation) looks like an inert, debris-flecked spinning top suspended in space. Categorized as a rubble-pile asteroid, ...