# Largest asteroid sample ever collected is coming down to Earth

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/largest-asteroid-sample-ever-collected-is-coming-down-to-earth/
- Published: 2023-09-24T09:15:29-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain. Article by Loren Grush, Bloomberg News. Phys.org – September 23, 2023. Chunks of asteroid that could tell us about the earliest days of the 4.5 billion-year-old solar system and the possible origins of water on our planet are set to land in the Utah desert Sunday. It’s a moment more than a decade in the making for a NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx. Its goal was to scoop up a large sample of rocks and dust from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu and bring it to our planet to study. […] Click here to view original web page at phys.org Curated by John Wysocki See Full Bio