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Spacecraft in risky descent to asteroid 200 million miles from Earth – Euronews
200 million miles from planet Earth, NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft is attempting to collect material from Bennu, a small asteroid
Late on Tuesday, 200 million miles away from planet Earth, a NASA spacecraft began a precarious descent to an asteroid.
The Osiris-Rex craft is attempting to collect a handful of rubble, which scientists say contains the building blocks of our solar system.
It dropped out of orbit around the asteroid, named Bennu, beginning a four and half hour descent to the boulder-covered surface of the space rock.
This is the USA’s first attempt to gather samples from an asteroid, something Japan has acc…
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