Asteroid Bennu: Will the best-characterized asteroid in the solar system hit the Earth or not? - Interesting Engineering

Asteroid Bennu was the first target for NASA’s first mission to return a sample. The fascinating asteroid has a high probability to hit the Earth.

Before leaving Bennu, OSIRIS-REx spent more than two years close to the asteroid. It monitored and gathered information about Bennu's size, shape, mass, composition, spin, and original trajectory. Th… [+1657 chars]

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