Asteroid Bennu's potential impact
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
A group of researchers based in South Korea drew up scenarios indicating how Earth’s climate and life on our planet would be affected by the impact of a medium-sized asteroid like Bennu.
As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous object, ranked third on the Sentry list of potential future Earth impact events. There’s a chance—albeit ...
And this added information may likely, though temporarily, boost its Earth impact odds. That's because the asteroid's risk corridor or area of uncertainty around Earth will shrink as astronomers ...
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