The Bennu space rock passes near Earth every six years and has had three close encounters with the planet in 1999, 2005, and 2011, NASA says.
A NASA mission is due to land in the US with"pristine" samples from an asteroid which scientists warned could one day hit Earth.The spacecraft was launched in 2016 as part of NASA's first mission to collect samples from an asteroid.NASA has said the"pristine material from Bennu" will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago.
Bennu, which was discovered by NASA in 1999, is thought to have been around within the first 10 million years of our solar system's formation.The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touched the surface of Bennu and collected a sample before propelling off the asteroid in October 2020.April: Arab astronaut makes history in spaceBennu passes near Earth every six years and has had three close encounters with the planet in 1999, 2005, and 2011, NASA has said.
In 2021, scientists with the OSIRIS-REx team said the asteroid could possibly drift into the Earth's orbit and hit the planet by September 2182.
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