• Asteroid Bennu Full Rotation • • This series of images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows asteroid Bennu in one full rotation from about 50 miles (80 km). The spacecraft’s PolyCam camera obtained the thirty-six 2.2-millisecond frames over a period of four hours and 18 minutes. •• Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/University Of Arizona | Astronomy Nation

7.5K views · 146 reactions | Bennu is here!  Starting today, you can visit the museum and see a sample of the asteroid Bennu collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission more than 200 million miles away from Earth. Over the coming months, additional samples will be distributed to labs and researchers around the world seeking to answer some of science's most important questions. CT scanning and video courtesy of NASA/Scott Eckley | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | Facebook

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