- Bennu, an ancient asteroid, gets its first visitor in billions of years. NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has been orbiting the rock for about a year, and now it's preparing to land on it for the first time. OSIRIS-REx will return to Earth in 2023 with the sample from Bennu. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/science/osiris-rex-nasa-asteroid-bennu.html 331 comments space
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