NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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Bennu is classified as a “potentially hazardous asteroid,” meaning the object is more than 460 feet (140 meters) wide and could theoretically come within 4.65 million miles of Earth.

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An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA ...

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Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

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The sample was secured after a tense few days following OSIRIS-REx’s October 20 touchdown on Bennu, which made the spacecraft only the third—and NASA’s first—to collect a sample from an ...