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NASA mission to touch down on asteroid Bennu today: Here’s what you need to know

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LOS ANGELES - How did our solar system form? How can we prevent an asteroid-Earth collision? These are just some of the questions NASA hopes to answer by bringing part of an asteroid home for the first time in U.S.

history.After orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Bennu for nearly two years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will collect a sample from its surface on Tuesday.“This is the first time that Nasa will be collecting a sample from an asteroid to bring back to Earth to study,” Jason Dworkin, a project scientist with the OSIRES-REx mission, told FOX TV Stations.OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample of Bennu The touch-down surface named Nightingale is limited to a 5-10 meter radius, the length of approximately six parking spaces, while.

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