Osiris Rex

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  Asteroid Bennu's Boulders Act as 'Body Armour' Against Small Meteoroids, Say Researchers

  Scientists think that the boulders on the surface of Asteroid Bennu might be acting as a shield against meteoroids. When a meteoroid collides with Bennu, which is a rubber-pile asteroid formed from a much bigger asteroid, it ends up fracturing, chipping, or breaking apart the boulders. Impactors also create smaller craters on Bennu due to the boul...

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  NASA Shares Photo of Asteroid Bennu as OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads Back to Earth After Collecting Samples

  NASA shared an Instagram post showing the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu, from which the space agency has collected samples using its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which will return to Earth in 2023.

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  OSIRIS-REx Space Probe Heads Home With Asteroid Dust From Bennu

  The US space probe OSIRIS-REx left the orbit of the asteroid Bennu, from which it collected dust samples last year, to begin its long journey back to Earth.

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  NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Safely Tucks Bennu Asteroid Samples for Return to Earth

  NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx tucked over 1kg of asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth after losing some of its precious loot because of a jammed lid, scientists said Thursday.

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  NASA Prepares OSIRIS-REx to Safely Store Leaking Asteroid Samples

  NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is set to begin a new mission to store the particles it scooped up from the asteroid Bennu’s surface which were slowly leaking into space because a flap got wedged open.

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  NASA Working to Prevent Losing Too Much of OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample

  NASA said Friday that its robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx had succeeded in collecting a large sample of particles from the Bennu asteroid this week -- but so much that it was leaking.

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  NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Sent Asteroid Rubble Flying in Successful Sample Grab

  NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft crushed rocks and sent rubble flying as it briefly touched an asteroid, a strong indication that samples were collected for return to Earth, officials said Wednesday.

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  NASA Probe OSIRIS-REx Briefly Touches Asteroid Bennu to Collect Rare Samples

  After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday to collect rock and dust samples in a precision operation 200 million miles (330 million kilometres) from Earth.

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  NASA OSIRIS-REx Probe to Touch Down on Asteroid Bennu on October 20

  After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday.

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  Nasa's Osiris-Rex Spacecraft Takes Off on 7-Year Mission to Asteroid Bennu

  "We are going to map this brand-new world that we have never seen before."

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  Nasa's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Probe May Find Clues to Origins of Life on Earth

  Osiris-Rex is headed to a 1,640-foot (500-meter) wide asteroid named Bennu, which circles the sun in roughly the same orbit as Earth.

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  Nasa Says Asteroid Hunting Spacecraft in Key Testing Phase

  Osiris-Rex is scheduled to launch in September and travel to the asteroid Bennu to collect a sample and return it to Earth for study.

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  Nasa's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission Passes Critical Milestone to Launch

  The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer is officially authorised to transition into its next phase.