The orbit of asteroid Bennu came Sputnik MOSCOW, 1 Jan — RIA Novosti. Space probe NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security — Regolith Explorer) went into orbit around the asteroid Bennu, the rock samples which he will collect. Probe OSIRIS-REx was launched in September 2016. His goal, the researchers chose the asteroid Bennu, formerly 1999 RQ36 room. The device has reached its working position at a distance of 20 kilometers from the 500-meter asteroid December 3. “It’s official! I on the orbit of the asteroid Bennu — the smallest of the heavenly bodies, around which revolved the spacecraft,” — said in the account of the mission on Twitter. During initial studies of the asteroid, the unit made several passes at a distance of seven kilometers from Benn. The probe gathered information about the mass and the motion of the asteroid. In the framework of the orbital phase of
