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NASA spacecraft touches asteroid Bennu for rare rubble grab – ABC News
NASA descends a spacecraft on the surface of an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth to grab a handful of rubble believed to contain the building blocks of our…
A NASA spacecraft has touched the surface of asteroid Bennu, 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a handful of rubble thought to contain the building blocks of our solar system.
Key points:
- The spacecraft took more than four hours to descend to the ancient asteroid
- Contact with the surface only lasted up to 10 seconds
- After nearly two years orbiting Bennu, it attempted to grab 60 grams of rubble
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft dropped out of orbit around …
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