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When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swings by Earth on Sunday, it is expected to deliver a rare cosmic gift: a pristine sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe makes final maneuver before Sept. 24 sample delivery | Space
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe performed one last trajectory-correcting maneuver on Sunday (Sept. 17) to set up the Sept. 24 arrival of its asteroid sample here on Earth.
OSIRIS-REx fired its thrusters briefly on Sunday, changing the probe's velocity by 7 inches (17.8 centimeters) per minute, NASA said.
Asteroid hit by NASA's DART spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly | Space
The asteroid Dimorphos is behaving in unexpected ways after being hit with a NASA rocket last year, new data suggest.
California high school teacher Jonathan Swift and his students first detected these unexpected changes while observing Dimorphos with their school's 2.3-foot (0.7 meter) telescope last fall.
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