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Bennu
ORBITS:
Sun
SMALL CELESTIAL BODY
A small asteroid that sent a sample home.
Discover the asteroid sampled by OSIRIS-REx to study the Solar System’s early materials, then explore its place in the Solar System on the SPACE-di interactive map.
naif:
20101955
Reference material: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory · NASA · 3D render credits
Make Bennu part of your exploration…
Bennu: exploring our Solar System’s small worlds…
Bennu is a small body in the Solar System, our region of space within the universe. The Sun is the star at the centre of this system. Explore its story and place in our planetary neighbourhood, then find it on the interactive 3D space map.
Bennu is a carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid visited by OSIRIS-REx. NASA returned samples from its surface to Earth in 2023, giving laboratories direct material from a primitive small body.