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101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ 36) 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 the highest cumulative rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale . [9]
- 28.0 km/s (63,000 mph)
- Lincoln Lab's ETS
Sep 27, 2023 · Inside were tiny fragments from a rocky asteroid some 525m (1,722ft) across called "101955 Bennu". It is only the third time in history that material from an asteroid has been gathered and ...
Mar 19, 2019 · Observations of asteroid (101955) Bennu with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reveal an unexpected surficial diversity that poses a challenge to the success of the sample-return mission.
- D. S. Lauretta, D. N. Dellagiustina, C. A. Bennett, D. R. Golish, K. J. Becker, S. S. Balram-Knutson...
- 2019
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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. Scientists think that within 10 million years of our solar system’s formation, Bennu’s present-day composition was ...
Oct 16, 2020 · Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid with a dark surface, a long history, and a rich potential for extraterrestrial resources. Learn about its origin, composition, structure, orbit, and future from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
- William Steigerwald
Mar 19, 2019 · The top-shaped morphology characteristic of asteroid (101955) Bennu, often found among fast-spinning asteroids and binary asteroid primaries, may have contributed substantially to binary asteroid ...
Jul 2, 2002 · NASA’S Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft recently arrived at the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, a primitive body that represents the objects that may have brought prebiotic molecules and volatiles such as water to Earth1. Bennu is a low-albedo B-type asteroid2 ...
