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The asteroid was initially spotted by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov on Saturday and reported to the Minor Planet Center (MPC)
For the first time, Webb and Hubble have simultaneously captured imagery from the same target in the cosmos
About two hours after the capsule''s reentry, JAXA said its helicopter search team found the capsule in the planned landing area
Nasa estimates the asteroid's relative speed at around 8.16 kilometres per second
At roughly 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 meters) across, asteroid 2020 QG is very small by asteroid standards
Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater in Bennu's northern hemisphere
NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site at the Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) reveals that they will be fast approaching the Earth this month
2002 AJ129 is an intermediate-sized near-Earth asteroid, somewhere between 0.5 and 1.2 kilometres across