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2023

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which asteroid was NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent to?
A
Benu
B
Ceres
C
Pallas
D
Juno
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu . When it arrives, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert.

Detailed explanation-2: -OSIRIS-REx finished its last flyover of Bennu on April 7, 2021, and departed for Earth on May 10 that year. The plan is for the sample capsule to return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, while the main spacecraft journeys on to Apophis for a 2029 rendezvous.

Detailed explanation-3: -Site Nightingale is the primary sample collection site on Bennu. It is located in a crater (with a 33 ft, or 10 m, radius) near Bennu’s north pole.

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