Monday, August 1, 2016

101955 Bennu

101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) is an Apollo asteroid discovered by the LINEAR Project on September 11, 1999. It is the planned target of the OSIRIS-REx mission which is intended to return samples to Earth in 2023 for further study. It is a potential Earth impactor and is listed on the Sentry Risk Table with the third highest rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101955_Bennu

OSIRIS-REx
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