Bennu

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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NASA has more than twice the asteroid Bennu samples it could have hoped for from OSIRIS-REx probe

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx nabbed over 120 grams of space rocks from asteroid Bennu

1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world'

The opened OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with the asteroid samples from the asteroid Bennu. [11648*8736]

NASA finally opens capsule to potentially hazardous asteroid 'Bennu' that may contain seeds of life

At last! NASA finally frees lid of asteroid Bennu sample capsule after battling stuck fasteners

'What is that material?': Potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu stumps scientists with its odd makeup

‘It’s amazing’: scientists analyse 4.6bn-year-old dark dust from Bennu asteroid

How NASA Captured Asteroid Dust to Find the Origins of Life | The sample of the space rock Bennu that OSIRIS-REx collected could unlock an ancient existential mystery

Smithsonian debuts 1st display of asteroid Bennu sample brought back by OSIRIS-REx

You Can See NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample In Person: Here’s How

Samples from asteroid Bennu contain the key ingredients of life

NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, Water

NASA Scientists Got a Surprise When They Opened Up Sample of Bennu Asteroid Dust

Scientists believe that there is now a 1 in 2,700, or 0.037% chance, that asteroid Bennu could hit our planet by 2182.

After Bennu triumph, OSIRIS-REx looks to asteroid Apophis

Samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx

NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule just landed with samples of asteroid Bennu. Next stop: Texas

NASA's OSIRIS-REx lands samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth after historic 4-billion-mile journey

NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule returns to Earth with a sample from the 'potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu