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It will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that visited the distant Bennu asteroid and scraped-up a sample in October 2020 will deliver that sample next week as it swings by Earth.

A spacecraft will fly by Earth to drop off pebbles and dust collected from asteroid Bennu.

A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop onto Utah pebbles and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu to close out a seven-year journey. The capsule holding the sample will parachute into the Utah desert.

OSIRIS-REx will help reveal Bennu’s detailed carbon chemistry and history of space weathering and unlock a key piece of the solar system’s early history.

Planet Earth is about to receive the biggest sample yet from an asteroid

Planet Earth is about to receive a special delivery — the biggest sample yet from an asteroid.
A Nasa spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off w

The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid.

The toughest parts of NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission will be protecting asteroid Bennu samples as it descends Earths atmosphere.

The OSIRIS-REx mission will return samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sunday, Sept. 24. You can celebrate the historic landing by helping NASA create a special playlist.