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NASA Spacecraft Delivering Biggest Sample Yet From An Asteroid

  • Planet Earth is about to receive a special delivery — the biggest sample yet from an asteroid.
  • A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing out a seven-year quest.
  • The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid.
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