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A capsule carrying a sample of rocks and dust from an asteroid landed successfully in the Utah desert Sunday morning and a Colorado team helped make it possible.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission accomplished historic milestone by delivering a capsule filled with rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu.

About 70% of the sample will remain pristine, allowing future generations with better technology to learn more from it

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Earth just got a special delivery: Pieces of an ancient asteroid that were snagged straight from the source and dropped off in the western Utah desert. Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million to 2 billion years ago, and drifted much closer to Earth since then.

In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out.

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NASA will return samples from asteroid Bennu to Earth on September 24, 2023 and you can livestream the historic event on NASA TV and YouTube. Here's how.

A capsule carrying rocky debris from asteroid Bennu is about to streak through the sky above Utah.

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, shielded by Silicon Valley-designed heat shields, set to land early Sunday with precious cargo