An impact from Bennu would be very destructive, but Earth has seen worse. Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid that was roughly 6 miles wide (10 kilometers across) struck Earth, killing most ...

Bennu is a 1,600-foot-wide near-Earth asteroid that was discovered in 1999 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) Project. It passes by Earth approximately every 6 years. However ...

In September 2135, the 1,600-foot-wide asteroid Bennu will pass between the Earth and the moon — and while scientists said Wednesday there is no chance of a collision, Earth's gravity will alter ...

Aug. 11 (UPI) --The half-a-kilometer-wide asteroid Bennu is already one of the most well-studied asteroids prior to the OSIRIS-REx mission. By ysing positional data collected over the course of ...

On October 20, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will briefly touchdown on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and attempt the agency’s first sample collection from an asteroid that will be returned to ...

From the NASA site report on Bennu, to explain Bennu we have formation 4.5E+9 - 10E+6 = 4.49E+9 years reported in the NASA site and whatever postulated events are needed in the model, including ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission created these images using false-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) composites of asteroid Bennu. A 2D map and spacecraft imagery were overlaid on a shape model of the asteroid ...

But before it steals a chunk of Bennu, scientists have created a 3D model of the asteroid's terrain, giving us our clearest picture yet of what we can expect when OSIRIS-REx makes landfall.

Water found on asteroid, confirming Bennu as excellent mission target Date: December 10, 2018 Source: University of Arizona Summary: Spectral observations made by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...

The lengthy two-year journey of OSIRIS-REx toward the asteroid Bennu has entered its final leg, with the probe officially beginning the approach phase of its mission. This will see it slowly close ...