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Last Updated: 06/20/2024

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101955 Bennu 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. Bennu has a 1 in nearly 1,800 chance to hit Earth in the next 300 years.
The exploration, which involved a dramatic sample collection, made Bennu one of three best-explored asteroids in the entire universe. The OSIRIS-REx mission revealed multiple surprising facts about Bennu, including that its surface is so soft that it nearly swallowed up the probe during the sampling touchdown.

Despite the relatively high chances of Bennu's orbit intersecting with that of Earth in the next couple of centuries, most experts think the asteroid is rather harmless.
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