OSIRIS-REx Improves Understanding of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
NASA and UArizona scientists were able to significantly reduce uncertainties about asteroid Bennu's orbit and determine the likelihood of the asteroid impacting Earth between now and the year 2300.
Topic(s)
Asteroids, comets, meteors
Date
August 11, 2021Presenter(s)
Lauretta, Dante
Object(s)
Bennu
Earth
Mission(s)/Instrument(s)
OSIRIS-REx