Comets and Asteroids

National Museum of Natural History Unveils Display of Asteroid Bennu Sample

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
NASA
November 3, 2023
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National Museum of Natural History Unveils Display of Asteroid Bennu Sample
The first public display of a sample from asteroid Bennu Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

The first public display of a sample from asteroid Bennu is seen, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington.

The sample was collected from the carbon rich near Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

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