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Bennu isn't likely to hit Earth - but if it did, here's what would happen
In 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu ... 1-in-2,700 chance (that's just 0.037 percent) of hitting Earth in 2182. Bennu is just over ⅓ mile, or 560 meters, in diameter.
Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
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Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 ... of hitting Earth on Sept. 24, 2182. Neither 2024 YR4 nor Bennu ...
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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were ... the last known large asteroid to hit the planet. Given the small but not impossible chance of Bennu’s potential impact in the future, a ...
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Why do organisms on Earth only have 'left-handed' amino acids? What did we find out by analyzing the amino acids on the asteroid Bennu?
The asteroid Bennu is a celestial body with an average diameter of about 560 meters that was discovered in 1999. It is said that it will approach Earth many times over the course of about 200 ...