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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-space/2018/12/03/nasa-mission-to-asteroid-today-355687
GREETINGS, BENNU!
A NASA spacecraft today is expected to sidle up to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in the agency’s first mission designed to retrieve a sample of an interstellar space rock for analysis and to help develop new defenses to head off possible asteroid strikes. The journey to Bennu, which is shaped like a top and as large as the Empire State Building, took more than two years.
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The spacecraft is expected to collect samples of the asteroid & return them to Earth in 2023.
GREETINGS, BENNU!
A NASA spacecraft today is expected to sidle up to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in the agency’s first mission designed to retrieve a sample of an interstellar space rock for analysis and to help develop new defenses to head off possible asteroid strikes. The journey to Bennu, which is shaped like a top and as large as the Empire State Building, took more than two years.
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The spacecraft is expected to collect samples of the asteroid & return them to Earth in 2023.