There’s a miniscule chance the ancient asteroid Bennu will hit Earth in the 22nd...
Sep 26, 2023 4:51 p.m.
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in Utah on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The sample was collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA spacecraft.NASA says there is a 1 in 1,750 chance that Earth gets hit next century by the asteroid Bennu, which is wider across than Salesforce Tower is tall. But we already have some of its 4.5 billion-year-old rocks and dust right here in the United States.
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