In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

Nearly two years after launch, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission caught its first glimpse of the asteroid Bennu on Aug. 17 from 1.4 million miles away. The asteroid appeared as a ...

Never So Brave (10/3), Witch Hunter (4/1), Bobby Bennu (9/2), Myal (11/2), Telemark (17/2), Cerulean Bay (12/1), Yanifer (14/1), Fair Point (16/1), Holguin (18/1), Kingdom Come (33/1), Brewing (33 ...

3. Bennu – A Small Rock with Big Scientific Value Bennu is a small near-Earth asteroid – just about 500 metres in diameter – but it’s one of the most studied and scientifically valuable objects of its ...

Bennu, the asteroid sampled by OSIRIS-REx, had a diameter similar to the height of the Empire State Building, or 1,614 feet (492 meters). Kamoʻoalewa is a quasi-satellite, a type of near-Earth ...

In 2020, the first U.S. asteroid retrieval mission, OSIRIS-REx, brought back samples from the Bennu asteroid. Kamoʻoalewa is known as a quasi-satellite of Earth, a close celestial neighbour that ...

Roger Varian’s BOBBY BENNU – a winner on the Roodee last June and a decent third at Wolverhampton in January – can make his seasonal return a winning one in the Ladbrokes Handicap (2.10pm).

A return to a flat seven furlongs with some cut in the ground will suit but he has stall 11 to overcome. Bobby Bennu is another progressive type. He had too much to do at Wolverhampton last time and a ...