101955 Bennu
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101955 Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group, discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object that is listed on the Sentry Risk Table and has
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19 January 2019
The Nightingale sample site imaged by OSIRIS-REx at touchdown. The circular TAGSAM head in the center of the frame is 0.30 m (1 ft) in diameter.
NASA Icarus Most Distant Main Sequence Star 20180402
OSIRIS-REx
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OSIRIS-REx was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. The material, returned in September 2023, is ex
101955 Bennu
…0.30 mi) and has been observed extensively by the Arecibo Observatory planetary radar and the Goldstone Deep Space Network. Bennu was the target of the OSIRIS-REx mission that returned samples of the asteroid to Earth. The spacecraft, launched in September 2016, arrived at the asteroid two years later and mapped…
OSIRIS-REx in Launch Configuration
Artist's concept of TAGSAM instrument in operation
Two members of the recovery team examine the return capsule after landing.
Close-up photo of the return capsule upon landing