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What Are Asteroids and Why Do They Matter for Earth’s Future?
What Are Asteroids and Why Do They Matter for Earth’s Future?
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December 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
p-s-v.bsky.social
Here's a view of the largest boulder on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu imaged by OSIRISREX on March 29, 2019. Includes a Buzz Aldrin (ca. Apollo 11) added for approximate scale

Jason Major
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This image, taken by the PolyCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on 29 March 2019 from a distance of 3.6 kilometers, shows Bennu’s largest boulder. The height of the boulder is 21.7 meters. The image was obtained during Flyby 4B of the mission’s Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase. When the image was taken, the spacecraft was over the northern hemisphere, pointing PolyCam down toward the south.
December 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
p-s-v.bsky.social
Asteroid Bennu Full Rotation

Series of images by OSIRIS-REx,shows asteroid Bennu in 1 full rotation from 50mil(80 km).Spacecraft’s Poly📸obtained thirty-six 2.2-millisecond frames over period of 4h&18m

Credit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona

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December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
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December 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
pomarede.bsky.social
A microscopic particle of asteroid Bennu, brought to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, is manipulated under a transmission electron microscope. Researchers first reinforced it with thin strips of platinum (the “L” shape) then welded a tungsten microneedle to it. 🧪🔭

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December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Asteroid Bennu from ~25m - From Brian Swift (bswift.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2j17cVS
Simulated view of asteroid Bennu from 50m below the lowest point reached by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performing a checkpoint rehearsal maneuver on 2020-04-14. More info on mission at: www.asteroidmission.org Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Brian Swift
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Bennu low threat century Cosmic NASA monitoring beauty - Learn how to choose the perfect telescope --> https://www.telescopeadvisor.com/how-to-choose-a-telescope.php and Get started with this beginners telescope --> https://amzn.to/3JaxN9u #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #NASA #Space
Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
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December 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Bennu low risk future Cosmic NASA monitoring facts - Learn how to choose the perfect telescope --> https://www.telescopeadvisor.com/how-to-choose-a-telescope.php and Get started with this beginners telescope --> https://amzn.to/3JaxN9u #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #NASA #Space
Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
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December 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Bennu holds life clues Cosmic asteroid sample beauty - Learn how to choose the perfect telescope --> https://www.telescopeadvisor.com/how-to-choose-a-telescope.php and Get started with this beginners telescope --> https://amzn.to/3JaxN9u #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #NASA #Space
What Are Asteroids and Why Do They Matter for Earth’s Future?
What Are Asteroids and Why Do They Matter for Earth’s Future?
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December 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
nekketsuheroes.bsky.social
* The next Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas Bangaihen: “Kagaho of the Heavenly Star Bennu appears before Violate, who guards Pandora... ”
(2/2)
December 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
sdemergencia-mx.bsky.social
Encuentran en el asteroide Bennu claves inesperadas del origen de la vida

#Bennu, un #asteroide primitivo, formado en los primeros días del #sistemasolar, contiene una pista inesperada sobre cómo empezó la vida.

#CULTURA #Ciencia #Asteroides #Planetas sdemergencia.com/2025/12/12/e...
Encuentran en el asteroide Bennu claves inesperadas del origen de la vida - Salida de Emergencia
Luego meses de análisis, la comunidad científica ha confirmado un resultado sorprendente.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
sensebun.bsky.social
Look, don't ask, just go look for the asteroid Bennu 🍭
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
astromonster.bsky.social
A frog could not jump off Phobos, could get reeeeally close to jumping off Deimos but not quite, but definitely could jump off of Bennu!
December 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
astromonster.bsky.social
Other r_jf values for the fun of it:

(Earth's is specifically 263 AU)
Mars: 28.3 AU
The Moon: 3.24 AU
Pluto: 0.574 AU
Ceres: 0.041 AU (6.19 million km)
Mimas: 247300 km
21 Lutetia: 11200 km
Phobos: 70.0 km
Deimos: 9.50 km
Bennu: 48.3 cm
December 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
geeknik.bsky.social
Asteroid Bennu isn’t a rock—it’s a prebiotic candy shop: ribose w/o DNA, space-gum like plastic before plastics, and 6× supernova dust. Life’s recipe existed before life—Earth just hit “install.”
Asteroid Bennu Samples Carry Mysterious Space Gum, Sugars, and a Ton of Stardust
Learn about the molecules and materials found in samples of asteroid Bennu, including sugars, space gum, and an abundance of stardust.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
spacemarschall.net
Here are the full results: blueskypolls.xyz/results.php?...
Full results of the first quarter final are shown as a list with bars that extend to the respective percentage of votes. "Comet Lemmon and a meteor train" got 38.8% (19 votes), "Asteroid Donaldjohanson seen by Lucy" got 34.7% (17 votes), " Spherules returned from asteroid Bennu" got 18.4% (9 votes), and " Spherules on Mars seen by Perseverance" got 8.2% (4 votes).
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
hafifabi.bsky.social
bennu, sana ihtiyacımız var! bak sende triptofan bile bulmuşlar...
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
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December 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
suzannamarlow.bsky.social
Just me & my dog in a tiny boat leading my nautilus behind across the vast ocean as I head back to the Isle of Bennu.

#minecraft #Realms #YesIplayMinecraft
December 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
araquan.bsky.social
Just saw a thumbnail for a vid. "NASA Found a Strange Substance on Asteroid Bennu." It shows green particles of something surrounded by more conventionally rock-lookin' stuff.

Uh... hope they're working with that stuff down on Level 5.

And that the door-gaskets aren't Polycron® o_o
December 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Bennu no threat now NASA tracks Cosmic asteroid secrets - Learn how to choose the perfect telescope --> https://www.telescopeadvisor.com/how-to-choose-a-telescope.php and Get started with this beginners telescope --> https://amzn.to/3JaxN9u #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #NASA #Space
Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
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December 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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This line made me do like 3 different double takes lol
Bennu: This bushtit bird mask caught my eye.
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
Is There an Asteroid Headed to Earth? NASA’s Latest Warnings
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December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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There is still time to vote for one of these four great images in the 4th quarter-final of #planetSci image of the year. Currently, it’s a tight race between asteroid Donaldjohanson and comet Lemmon.

The vote can be found in this thread: bsky.app/profile/spac...

#scicomm
The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI). This is one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby. This image was taken at 1:51 p.m. EDT (17:51 UTC), April 20, 2025, near closest approach, from a range of approximately 660 miles (1,100 km). The spacecraft’s closest approach distance was 600 miles (960 km), but the image shown was taken approximately 40 seconds beforehand. The image has been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast. Source: https://lucy.swri.edu/DonaldjohansonImageGallery.html Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab How many bright tails does Comet Lemmon have? Two. In the featured image it appears to have three, but why? The reason is that the zigzagging brown filament is a persistent meteor train that by luck appeared in front of the distant comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). A meteor train is the hot gas and fine dust that remains in the Earth's atmosphere and disperses in the seconds after a bright meteor flashes by. The two bright tails are the blue ion tail stretching across the image, and the white dust tail nearer the green coma on the upper left. All real comet tails originate from the nucleus of the comet inside the coma. The image was captured from Manciano, Italy. Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251027.html Unusual “witch hat” or “helmet-shaped” rock composed entirely of smaller spherules. The image was taken by the NASA rover Perseverance on Mars. Source: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/shocking-spherules/ https://jackiebranc.site/nasas-perseverance-rover-journey/ The Bennu samples revealed magnetite (iron oxide) crystals less than 1 micrometer in size. The individual crystals included hexahedra (six-sided cubes) and octahedra (eight-sided polyhedra). Rob Wardell/Tim Gooding/Tim McCoy/Smithsonian Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/29/science/asteroid-bennu-building-blocks-of-life
December 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
spacecowboyspod.bsky.social
Eerste golf publicaties over planetoïde Bennu, hoopvol nieuws uit Baikonour en waarom brengt Musk SpaceX naar de beurs? Dat en meer bespreken Inge Loes ten Kate, Luc van den Abeelen en Michel van Baal in deze nieuwe aflevering van Space Cowboys
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December 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM