The Bakersfield Californian10d
NICK STROBEL: Planetary show continues in night sky
The "parade of planets" in the evening sky continues. Starting the evening of Feb. 22, Mercury will join the lineup but it will be very low near the horizon shortly ...
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Bennu isn't likely to hit Earth - but if it did, here's what would happen
In 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are getting ...
Astronomy15d
Bennu isn’t likely to hit Earth — but if it did, here’s what would happen
In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...
The State Journal18d
Bluegrass Skies: Life and death from space
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) traveled 3.6 ...
Rappler18d
Scientists predict devastation if asteroid Bennu strikes Earth in 2182
WASHINGTON, USA – The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles (299,000 km) away ...
Physics World19d
Asteroid Bennu contains the stuff of life, sample analysis reveals
The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in 2020. The findings “bolster the hypothesis that asteroids like Bennu could have delivered the raw ...
CNN19d
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...
Forbes20d
NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Could Cause A Global Catastrophe, Scientists Say
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...
Gizmodo20d
Here’s What Would Happen If Asteroid Bennu Hit Earth
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar system, and we need to be prepared for what could come. A first-of-its ...
IFLScience20d
Asteroid Bennu Has A Tiny Chance Of Hitting Earth – Which Could Start A Global Winter
Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182. Bennu is not on the scale of the Chicxulub impactor – which hit the ...
Live Science20d
Here's what could happen if asteroid Bennu smashes into Earth in 157 years
Bennu is significantly smaller than the 6-mile-wide (10 km) behemoth that created the Chixulub crater and wiped out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. However, even a Bennu-size asteroid ...