Nasa lands Bennu asteroid samples back on Earth
The capsule containing the sample was recovered by helicopter from the Utah desert.
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NASA says five asteroids passing Earth this week
Five asteroids will near Earth within the next four days, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Nasa spacecraft begins two-year trip home with asteroid rubble
The trip home for the robotic prospector, Osiris-Rex, will take two years. It reached asteroid Bennu in 2018 and spent two years flying near and around it, before collecting rubble from the surface last autumn. The University of Arizona’s Dante Lauretta, the principal scientist, estimates the spacecraft holds between 8oz and 16oz of mostly bite-size chunks, easily exceeding the target of at least 2oz. It will be the biggest cosmic haul for the US since the Apollo moon rocks. Mission navigatio...
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