a scientific research team is trying to study asteroids
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Scientific Research Team is Trying To Study Asteroids
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- Only a few robotic spacecraft have come close to colliding with asteroids.
- In 2013, a nine-year-old kid from North Carolina won NASA's "Name that Asteroid" competition and named the asteroid after an Egyptian god.
- In 1999, a crew from NASA's Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research team found the asteroid.
- Asteroids are stony bodies orbiting the Sun that are significantly smaller than planets.
- Bennu is an asteroid roughly the size of the Empire State Building that orbits the Earth at a distance of about 200 million miles..
- Because asteroids formed at the same period as other objects in the solar system, scientists study them to learn more about the creation and history of planets and the sun.
- Scientists are interested in obtaining information about this specific asteroid for several reasons.
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