See every square foot of asteroid Bennu, Earth's little frenemy

Engadget ^ | 04/07/2020 | Steve Dent

[TChad]

Ha! I had to look it up. I was referring to real unobtainium, not fictional Pandoran unobtainium. Or something like that.

By the way, as long as I am chatting with you, is Rurudyne a play on Yoyodyne?

[GingisK]

Whoa! I just saw a alien face on Bennu! Its there, just look at it... ;-D

[upchuck]

Neat pic. Thanks to NASA.

[CJ Wolf]

looks like a chunk of something.

[minnesota_bound]

#10 this is how the Earth started out. A collection of rocks that attracted more and more with the resulting pressure molding it all into a sphere.

[SunkenCiv]

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• OSIRIS-REx Captures Sharper Images of Asteroid Bennu [2019]
• Watch NASA's OSIRIS-REx Rendezvous With an Asteroid: The spacecraft arrives at the tiniest [tr] [2018]
• Live coverage of spacecraft arrival at asteroid December 3 [2018]
• NASA Spacecraft Begins Final Approach to Big Asteroid Bennu [2018]
• Asteroid Bennu: Target of Sample Return Mission [2018]
• NASA asteroid probe may find clues to origins of life on Earth (Bennu, time capsule of our origins) [2016]
• NASA plans to launch study of asteroid that could destroy Earth (Bennu in 2135 scenario) [2016]

[Rurudyne]

Yes.