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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled ...

An asteroid that NASA plans to explore is now named Bennu — thanks to a third grader from North Carolina. “It’s great! I’m the first kid I know that named part of the solar … ...

Astronomers eventually named the half-kilometer-wide object Bennu, after a creation god from Egyptian mythology. And indeed, if Bennu, filled with organic compounds and water-rich minerals, fell ...

If you plan to visit asteroid Bennu, ... are in keeping with the mission name that is derived from Egyptian mythology. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, ...

Another commonly cited source of inspiration is the deity Bennu’s creation of the world—which can be thought of as a birth—in Egyptian mythology; Bennu is sometimes said to be represented by ...

In Egyptian mythology, the god Atum settled upon Benben to create the world after his flight over the waters in the form of the Bennu bird. Benben Saxum is the tallest boulder on Bennu.

Bennu, a near-Earth orbiting asteroid, was discovered in 1999. It is named after an ancient Egyptian bird deity. Third-grade student Michael Puzio won a contest to name it in 2013, ...

Another commonly cited source of inspiration is the deity Bennu’s creation of the world—which can be thought of as a birth—in Egyptian mythology; Bennu is sometimes said to be represented by ...