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NASA spacecraft completes final practice before asteroid sample collection
Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater in Bennu's northern hemisphere
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Stadium-sized asteroid, 2 others to whiz past Earth in June: Know details
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
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Why 16 Psyche, a gaint asteroid full of gold, won't make us richer
Once those metals start hitting the market in large quantities, they're unlikely to be precious for much longer
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'Potentially hazardous asteroid' to safely fly past Earth on Feb 4: Nasa
The asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to earth on February 4, 2018 at 4.30 p.m. EST
Cigar-shaped asteroid discovery can help unveil extrasolar worlds' secrets
Planetary scientists study comets and asteroids because they are almost unchanged records of the material from which the solar system formed
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Small asteroid set to pass safely by Earth tomorrow: Experts
Experts say the asteroid poses no risk of impact with Earth
Gigantic asteroid to fly safely past Earth in mid-April: NASA
The space rock is set to go past Earth at a distance of about 1.8 million km
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