Wednesday, 1 May 2013

NASA Spacecraft Will Visit Asteroid with New Name

NASA Spacecraft Will Visit Asteroid with New Name WASHINGTON -- An asteroid that will be explored by a NASA spacecraft has a new name, thanks to a third-grade student in North Carolina. NASA's Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will visit the asteroid now called Bennu, named after an important ancient Egyptian avian deity.
crawled from : Nasa

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