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NASA said in a 2021 paper from the OSIRIS-REx science team gives Bennu a [one-in-2,700] chance of impacting Earth on Sept. 24, 2182. Previously, it had "three close encounters [with Earth] in 1999 ...
Meteorites that fall to Earth are quickly contaminated from the second they make contact with our atmosphere. This means Bennu can give us an unspoiled glimpse into the past.
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 highest cumulative rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale. [9]
The good news is that scientists have a better handle on the asteroid’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth ...
This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024 [update] , all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors .
"First Plutonian anniversary" of Pluto's discovery, given its orbit is just under 248 Earth years. 2178 January 28 2182 September 24 With an estimated probability of 0.04%, asteroid 101955 Bennu could hit Earth. 2185 Triple conjunction Mars–Saturn [56] 2186 July 16 The longest total solar eclipse of the century. [57]
Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY. Reach him at elagatta@gannett.com. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Asteroid Apophis to pass near Earth in 2029: What to ...
Of the 160 asteroids with better than a 1-in-10,000 chance of impacting Earth only 101955 Bennu is larger than 50 meters in diameter. The soonest virtual impactor of an asteroid larger than 50 meters in diameter with a better than 1:1-million chance of impact is 2022 PX 1 on 11 August 2040 with a 1: 330 000 chance of impact. [ 8 ]