OSIRIS-REx Slings Orbital Web Around Asteroid to capture sample| 4K

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101955 Bennu is one of Earth's closest planetary neighbors -
an asteroid roughly the height of a skyscraper, and since late
2018, the place that NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has called
home. When OSIRIS-REx arrived on Dec. 3, 2018, it began
wrapping Bennu in a complex web of observations. OSIRIS-
REx departs Bennu on May 10, 2021, on a return voyage to
Earth, bringing with it over 60 grams of sample collected from
the asteroid. This narrated video presents the mission's
complete trajectory during its time at Bennu.

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