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These are the 5 asteroids NASA is hunting down because they have a high risk of destroying Earth.
NASA is tracking nearly five of the most dangerous asteroids to Earth, including those with a high risk of causing a catastrophic impact.
Bennu Asteroid
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Why did it take NASA 3 months just to open two locks on the box containing soil and rocks collected from a place 6.2 billion km from Earth?
To ensure no contamination of the sample, NASA had to approve the tools used in opening the capsule.
Space science
Asteroid diameter of 500m spew rocks into space
Thanks to the NASA spacecraft, scientists observed material eruptions of hundreds of small stones of the asteroid Bennu.
Discover science
The mission to bring 4.5-year asteroid specimens back to Earth
NASA launched the OSIRIS-Rex into space last September with the task of studying Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, and taking the specimen back to Earth, NJ, on Oc…
Space science
NASA launched a meteorite research satellite that could destroy the Earth
The Orisis-Rex spacecraft will collect specimens on the asteroid Bennu and bring it back to Earth to study the meteorite that threatens to destroy the Earth.
Space science
Send name to asteroid
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) is inviting people to give their names to engrave on the microchip, mounted in the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft to fly to the asteroi…