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    101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999....
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    asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. The material, returned in September...
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  • (Mar 2019). "Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid (101955) Bennu" (PDF). Nature Astronomy. 3 (332–340): 332–340. Bibcode:2019NatAs.....
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  • Bennu is an ancient Egyptian deity. Bennu may also refer to: 101955 Bennu, an asteroid discovered in 1999 BennuGD, forked in 2010, a video game development...
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    101955 Bennu (2020). Surface samples have been collected from the Moon (returned 1969), 25143 Itokawa (returned 2010), 162173 Ryugu and 101955 Bennu....
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  • cumulative chance of impacting Earth after (29075) 1950 DA, 1979 XB, and 101955 Bennu. With a cumulative Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale of -2.93, the...
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    the comet Wild 2 and the asteroids 25143 Itokawa, 162173 Ryugu, and 101955 Bennu have been visited by robotic spacecraft which returned samples to Earth;...
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  • all asteroids, at a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 186.4, surpassing 101955 Bennu (SNR=181.6). The 2021 apparition was the last opportunity to observe...
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  • This is a list of space objects and features which were named after Filipino people, mythology and places. As of March 2024, there are 20 asteroids named...
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    OSIRIS-REx mission first observed episodes of particle ejection from 101955 Bennu shortly after entering orbit around the near-Earth asteroid, leading...
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    presence on celestial bodies including the dwarf planet Ceres, asteroid 101955 Bennu, and comet Tempel 1, as well as Jupiter's moon Europa. Like all phyllosilicates...
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  • mapping of small bodies in preparation for the OSIRIS‐REx mission to (101955) Bennu. Earth and Space Science, 5(12), 929–949. Lauretta, D. S., DellaGiustina...
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  • assumed. In rare cases, G {\displaystyle G} can be negative. An example is 101955 Bennu, with G = − 0.08 {\displaystyle G=-0.08} . In 2012, the H G {\displaystyle...
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  • mission plan was to orbit an asteroid, at the time named 1999 RQ36 (now 101955 Bennu), by 2020. After extensive measurements, the spacecraft collected a sample...
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    on September 8, 2016, and will arrive at the Near-Earth object (NEO) 101955 Bennu in August 2018. The program's fourth mission is Dragonfly, which will...
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  • successful return of samples from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid 101955 Bennu. Shortly after the sample container was retrieved and transferred to...
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    objects with observation arcs of several years are (29075) 1950 DA and 101955 Bennu. Notable asteroids removed from Sentry include (most recently removed...
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  • May 2024, one asteroid has a cumulative Palermo Scale value above −2: 101955 Bennu (−1.41). Six have cumulative Palermo Scale values between −2 and −3:...
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    launched the OSIRIS-REx in 2016, a sample return mission to asteroid 101955 Bennu. In 2021, the probe departed the asteroid with a sample from its surface...
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  • OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, a sample return mission to study near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu. The outer main-belt asteroid 3099 Hergenrother was named in his honor...
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    for collecting a sample from asteroid 101955 Bennu. OSIRIS-REx was launched in 2016. It arrived at asteroid Bennu in August 2018, and began scientific...
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    land on the Moon, NASA's OSIRIS-REx returned an asteroid sample from 101955 Bennu back to Earth and NASA's Lucy probe performed a flyby of asteroid 152830...
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  • election. October 20: NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touches down on 101955 Bennu, becoming the agency's first probe to retrieve samples from an asteroid...
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    OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule in Utah from asteroid 101955 Bennu...
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  • labs. NASA is working on a modelling study that considers the asteroid 101955 Bennu, which has a diameter of 246 meters and capable of a 1.15 gigaton impact...
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    sample-return Launched: 8 September 2016 Destination: 101955 Bennu Arrival: 3 December 2018 Left Bennu: 10 May 2021 Destination: 99942 Apophis Arrival: April...
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    Programme Planetary Defense Coordination Office Potential threats 1950 DA 101955 Bennu 2010 RF12 99942 Apophis Related categories Impact events Fiction about...
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  • refer to: Osprey, one of four formally named regions on the asteroid 101955 Bennu, as mapped by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft Osprey Media, a Canadian publishing...
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    "Shape model and surface properties of the OSIRIS-REx target Asteroid (101955) Bennu from radar and lightcurve observations". Icarus. 226 (1): 629–640. Bibcode:2013Icar...
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    et al. (2020) presenting a scenario of formation of the asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, visited by NASA OSIRIS-REx and JAXA Hayabusa2 probes...
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