 |  US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20
 26 September 2020
After a four-year journey, NASA’s robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid
Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to
collect rock and dust samples, the agency said. Scientists hope the mission will help
deepen our understanding of how planets formed and life began and provide insight on
asteroids that could impact Earth.
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