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Asteroid
Bennu
A near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid — sampled by OSIRIS-REx, the sample returned to Earth in 2023. Near-Earth orbit, not a belt member; no figure position is drawn.
- Mean distance
- 1.126 au
- Orbital period
- 1.2 y
- Diameter
- 490 m
Values: NASA OSIRIS-REx mission pages · JPL small-body database (101955 Bennu) — not network-verified in this run.
Listed without a figure position: JPL small-body orbital elements were not importable in this environment, and no position is invented.
Recorded encounters
- 2018 OSIRIS-RExOSIRIS-REx arrives at Bennu
An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).
Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →
Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).