From Earth to Asteroid Bennu by a slingshot

Name: From Earth to Asteroid Bennu by a slingshot
Uploaded: 2017-09-24T20:53:12+00:00
Duration: 1 min 15 s
Channel: AccuWeather
Description: NASA spacecraft, OSIRIS-REX is on a journey to the near-Earth asteroid, Bennu. To get there, it took a detour past Earth's southern hemisphere for a gravity assist that would slingshot the spacecraft to the asteroid. It will reach Bennu in 2018.

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NASA spacecraft, OSIRIS-REX is on a journey to the near-Earth asteroid, Bennu.  To get there, it took a detour past Earth's southern hemisphere for a gravity assist that would slingshot the spacecraft to the asteroid.  It will reach Bennu in 2018.

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