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Bennu
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Ceres
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Vesta
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Juno
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Detailed explanation-1: -NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is an ongoing mission that visited and collected a sample from asteroid 101955 Bennu, with the aim of returning the sample to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-Rex launched on Sept. 8, 2016, and arrived at asteroid Bennu on Dec.
Detailed explanation-2: -A series of maneuvers beginning in July 2023 will bring OSIRIS-REx even closer, to 155 miles (250 kilometers) off the surface, close enough to release its sample capsule for a precision landing – via parachute at the Air Force’s Utah Test and Training Range in the Great Salt Lake Desert.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hayabusa2 is a Japanese spacecraft that studied asteroid Ryugu, collected samples, and brought them to Earth for analysis.
Detailed explanation-4: -OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples will land on Earth in 2023 and scientists can’t wait. Returning to Earth is only the beginning of the journey for these pieces of asteroid Bennu. Six years and more than 200 million miles later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is finally on its way home from the asteroid Bennu.