UArizona officials say there is a new mission for the spacecraft that brought a sample from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth.
The sample it collected from Bennuin September, but that doesn't mean it's the end of the line for the OSIRIS-REx mission.
The name ‘Apophis’ may be familiar to some people. That's because at one point in recent years, some believe the asteroid could to pose a threat to humanity.on Apophis, some believe that flyby rocks from the asteroid could impact Earth by 2068. In its statement, UArizona officials said when the asteroid was first discovered, ther was a scare that it was going to impact Earth in 2029.
"A 2068 impact is not in the realm of possibility anymore, and our calculations don’t show any impact risk for at least the next 100 years," said Davide Farnocchia of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies , which is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
The spacecraft's cameras, according to the statement, will start collecting data by Apr. 2, 2029, as the spacecraft approaches the asteroid.
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