In the Solar System · tracked live
Bennu
A dark near-Earth asteroid half a kilometre across, here because OSIRIS-REx spent two years at it and returned 122 grams of it to the Utah desert in September 2023 - the largest sample brought back from beyond the Moon. The surface was nothing like the expected beach of gravel: it was strewn with boulders, it threw particles off into space on its own, and the sampling arm sank into it as though into a pit of loose material.
- Radius
- 0 km
- Around the equator
- 2 km
- From the Sun
- 202,701,945 km (+17,091 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 323,963,924 km (+478,588 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 18 min
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.