Asteroid Bennu
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The asteroid Bennu as it is photographed by OSIRIS-REx from more than one million miles away. The UA-lead mission to Bennu will attempt to retrieve a sample from the asteroid and return it to Earth by 2023.
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Spacecraft will begin slowing and collecting data on the asteroid as it closes in. It will arrive in early December.
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