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Astro Brief: Bennu Revisited
Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...
Mississippi Valley Publishing3d
Carthage library offers virtual program with aerospace engineer Tuesday, March 4
Carthage Public Library District joins more than 200 Illinois Libraries Present (ILP) members to virtually host “Exploring ...
Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
The Washington Post13d
Study models asteroid collision’s potentially devastating impact
They modeled what would happen to Earth’s climate, vegetation and oceans if such an asteroid struck land. Medium-size ...
GIGAZINE15d
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 ...
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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. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are getting ...
Astronomy19d
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. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...
SciTech Daily22d
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
C. Connolly Jr. and D. S. Lauretta, 29 January 2025, Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08495-6 “Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu” by ...
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NASA Identifies Asteroid Bennu's Earth Trajectory
NASA's watchful eye on the skies has recently spotted asteroid Bennu, a celestial body with a slim chance of impacting Earth. According to a study published in Science Advances, Bennu's odds of ...
Rappler22d
Scientists predict devastation if asteroid Bennu strikes Earth in 2182
WASHINGTON, USA – The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away ...
Physics World23d
Asteroid Bennu contains the stuff of life, sample analysis reveals
The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in 2020. The findings “bolster the hypothesis that asteroids like Bennu could have delivered the raw ...
CNN23d
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...