Bennu Remains One Of Our Solar System’s Most Hazardous Asteroids
NASA researchers released a study Wednesday that informs the community about potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu through the year 2300, using precision-tracking data from the agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. The study, “Ephemeris and hazard assessment for near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu based on OSIRIS-REx data.” was published by the journal Icarus. “NASA’s Planetary Defense mission is to find and monitor asteroids and comets that can come near Earth and may pose a hazard to our planet,” said Kelly Fast, program manager for the Near-Earth Object Observa
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