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Bennu

Outline The numbers here are measured. The rest of this page is being written.

Sun
The path of Bennu round the Sun, seen from above and drawn to scale, with the white dot at its nearest point. The faint rings are the paths of Mercury, Venus and the Earth; it crosses the path of the Earth. Orbit from NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.
Kind
Asteroid
Distance
1.126 au from the Sun on average
Once round
436.6 days
Path
a long oval (eccentricity 0.204), tilted 6.03°
Size
0.484 km across

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought samples of it back to Earth in 2023.

The SunOn the atlasIn 3D

Still being written

  1. What it looks like
  2. What it is made of
  3. How it was found
  4. Spacecraft that have visited
  5. Could it hit the Earth?

Sources: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.