NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Bennu is classified as a “potentially hazardous asteroid,” meaning the object is more than 460 feet (140 meters) wide and could theoretically come within 4.65 million miles of Earth.

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Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

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Asteroid Bennu, passes by Earth roughly every six years, experts have been closely watching it since it was discovered in September 1999. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.

In 2018, it arrived at Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Sears Tower is tall. The mission collected pieces of the asteroid and brought them back to Earth in 2023.

The asteroid appeared as a speck of light to the spacecraft’s UA-built PolyCam camera, but Bennu will seem to grow now that OSIRIS-REx has begun the approach phase of the mission.

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

Because this asteroid will zoom by Earth in 2029, a detailed study of its trajectory will deliver even further restrictions on the fifth force than what Bennu could provide.