A Billion-Year-Old Secret Unlocked in Asteroid Bennu’s Dust
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
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Chile's Celestial Crisis: Dark Skies Under Threat
Chile's dark skies, vital for astronomy, face threats from urban development. The asteroid Bennu could pose a future risk to ...
NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Could Cause A Global Catastrophe, Scientists Say
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
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Asteroid Could Devastate Earth In 2182: What to Know
This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
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The Asteroid Bennu Has All the Building Blocks of Life
The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
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Asteroid Bennu could trigger a global winter lasting more than 3 years and here’s what’s known
The vast majority can be found in the asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between ... Originally named 1999 RQ36, it was renamed in 2013. Bennu is an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the Sun ...
Here’s What Would Happen If Asteroid Bennu Hit Earth
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...
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What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?
They calculated that there is a very small chance — about 1-in-2700, or 0.037% to be exact — that asteroid Bennu, which is roughly the size of the Empire State Building, could collide with our ...
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NASA's astonishing discovery about asteroid Bennu could change everything
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Scientists predict devastation if asteroid Bennu strikes Earth in 2182
The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...
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What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?
Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images In the most extreme scenario ... The study "Climatic and ecological responses to Bennu-type asteroid collisions" was published in the ...