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NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex

October 1 , 2023 404 days 561 0
  • Recently, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a capsule over the earth and landed in Utah in the U.S.
  • It may contain around 250 grams of rocks and dust that OSIRIS-REx had collected from the surface of 101955 Bennu.
  • OSIRIS-REx was launched toward the 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) Bennu in September 2016.
  • Bennu is an asteroid orbiting the sun (with a period of 436 days).
  • Bennu could smash into the earth between 2178 and 2290.

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