Bennu
near-Earth asteroid · a spinning top of rubble
2.23 AU from Earth
A loose pile of rubble about 500 m wide, shaped like a spinning top, with a ridge round its middle and boulders everywhere. NASA's OSIRIS-REx scooped up 121.6 g of it and dropped the sample off at Earth on 24 September 2023. It has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth in 2182.
- 1.35 AU from the Sun · 505 x 492 x 457 m
- one turn every 4.3 hours · one lap of the Sun every 437 days
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
open Bennu in the atlas ›- kind
- place in the Solar System · moon or small world
- distance
- 1.35 AU from the Sun
- size
- 484 m across
- orbits
- the Sun