Coming to your solar system soon: A rendezvous with an asteroid

Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 15:31 in Astronomy & Space

A group of University of Colorado Boulder researchers is readying for NASA's Sept. 8 launch of a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, thought to harbor primordial material left over from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.

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