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101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ 36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object that is listed on the Sentry Risk Table and has the second highest cumulative rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale. [9]
Bennu (/ ˈ b ɛ n uː /) [1] is an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the Sun, creation, and rebirth. He may have been the original inspiration for the phoenix legends that developed in Greek mythology .
TAGSAM is a robotic arm attached to the main body of the spacecraft that collects a sample from the asteroid, and puts the samples into the Earth return vehicle. [5] Bennu is about 500 meters in diameter and has very low gravity, so the arm must perform the collection in near zero gravity, yet still contend with some gravitational forces from the asteroid. [6]
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Asteroid (101955) Bennu seen ejecting particles by the OSIRIS-REx Active asteroids are objects that have asteroid-like orbits but show comet -like visual characteristics. That is, they show comae , tails , or other visual evidence of mass-loss (like a comet), but their orbit remains within Jupiter 's orbit (like an asteroid).
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101955 Bennu: Orbiter/Sample Returner Successful 99942 Apophis: Orbiter/Regolith Disturber en route Successfully collected sample of Bennu on 20 October 2020 and returned the sample to Earth on 24 September 2023. For its extended mission called OSIRIS-APEX, the spacecraft is now en route to encounter Apophis on 8 April 2029. 13 Discovery 13 Lucy
Binbir Gece (English: One Thousand and One Nights) is a Turkish soap opera revolving around four main characters: Sehrazat, Onur, Kerem and Bennu. The story is loosely based on the story of One Thousand and One Nights, better known as Arabian Nights.