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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which launched in 2016, scooped up bits of dust, soil and rocks from the asteroid Bennu and then brought them to Earth in 2023. The 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid is ...
A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock's surface, and scooped up a heaping sample of grit and dust. It was NASA's first-ever score of ...
It marked the first time the US sent a spacecraft to briefly land on an asteroid and collect material. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft then dropped off a capsule when it swung by Earth in September 2023 ...
On 3 December 2018, NASA confirmed that OSIRIS-REx had matched the speed and orbit of Bennu at a distance of about 19 km (12 mi), effectively reaching the asteroid. OSIRIS-REx performed closer passes of the Bennu surface, initially at about 6.5 km (4.0 mi) through December to further refine the shape and orbit of Bennu.
Illustration of OSIRIS-REx with TAGSAM extended. TAGSAM or Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism is a robotic arm on the OSIRIS-REx space probe designed and used for collecting a sample from asteroid 101955 Bennu. [1] OSIRIS-REx was launched in 2016. It arrived at asteroid Bennu in August 2018, and began scientific studies.
Asteroid 5819 Lauretta was named in his honor. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He serves as the principal investigator on NASA 's OSIRIS-REx mission to return at least 60 grams (2.1 oz) of regolith from carbonaceous asteroid 101955 Bennu in 2023.
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, was taken on December 2, 2018 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. Organic samples returned from Bennu contain the building blocks of life on ...
Asteroid designation Date of impact Location of impact Method of detection Estimated size Reference 2008 TC 3: October 7, 2008: Nubian Desert in Sudan: visual, weather satellite, meteorite recovery: 4 m (13 ft) [1] 2014 AA: January 2, 2014: Central Atlantic Ocean: infrasound: 2–4 m (6.6–13.1 ft) [2] 2018 LA: June 2, 2018: Botswana/South ...