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[NBC noted: “Bennu is located more than 200 million miles away from Earth but has an orbit that can swing it to within 4.6 million miles of the planet. Pluto's average distance from the Sun is about 39.4 astronomical units, or about 3.64 billion miles from the Sun. On October 20, 2020, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descended toward the surface of the small asteroid it was orbiting 200 million miles from Earth and touched the rough surface with a … Oct. 20, 2020 at 9:20 am Updated Oct. 20, 2020 at 4:19 pm . As such, Bennu and other near-Earth asteroids are classified as potentially hazardous objects. Stunning images taken from the historic OSIRIS-REx mission show the moment the spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Bennu more than 200 million miles away from Earth … The Washington Post. Tomorrow, a US spacecraft more than 200 million miles from Earth will sneak up to an asteroid larger than the Empire State Building and snag a handful of … A NASA probe has just now collected material from the surface of asteroid Bennu, some 200 million miles (322 million km) from Earth. Christian Davenport. NASA spacecraft touches asteroid 200 million miles from Earth . The satellite was launched on February 11, 2015, and was 1 million miles (1.6 million … This image of Earth was taken by NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite on July 6, 2015. By . The series of photos was captured on 20 October as a part of the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event. In space exploration, decades of research and development often come down to a matter of seconds. Over the course of four hours, the agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft inched toward its target on Bennu – a 16-metre-wide crater named Nightingale – at a nail-biting pace of just 0.2 miles per hour. NASA spacecraft successfully collects asteroid sample in 10-second mission 200 million miles from Earth. There were cheers from the mission team in … Bennu is located more than 200 million miles away from Earth but has an orbit that can swing it to within 4.6 million miles of the planet. A NASA probe touched a rocky, dusty asteroid 200 million miles from Earth today and collected samples that could date to the formation of the universe itself. NASA scientists on Tuesday appeared to make a successful historic collection of its first samples from an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth. If you give or take 93 million miles (the distance of Earth from the Sun; Earth could be on the opposite side or same side of the Sun as Pluto), that is still a much larger number than 500 million. At 1512 PT (2212 UTC), NASA engineers whooped and cheered … In the slideshow above, you can see the SamCam imager’s field of view as the spacecraft approaches and touches the surface of the asteroid, over 200 million miles (321 million km) away from Earth.