NASA to reveal 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid sample on October 11
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NASA is gearing up to unveil the sample collected from the Bennu asteroid during the groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx mission on October 11. The results of their analysis of the returned asteroid sample will also be discussed for the first time on the same day. Launched in September 2016, OSIRIS-REx marked NASA's first-ever attempt to retrieve a sample from an asteroid. The spacecraft successfully gathered the sample in 2020 and returned to Earth on September 24, touching down in the Utah desert.