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		</div><p>US space agency Nasa has captured its closest and most-detailed image yet of Bennu, a 78 billion kilogram asteroid which makes a close approach to Earth every six years.</p>
<p>It is the second time the spacecraft has put itself into orbit around the asteroid, snapping a shot at a distance of 0.4 miles from the asteroid’s surface.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the view from the closest orbit a spacecraft has ever made around a planetary body.</p>
<p>This navigation image of asteroid Bennu was taken shortly after orbital insertion on June 13 from a distance of 0.4 miles (690 m).</p>
<p>Image details: <a href="https://t.co/8aFYUKK4cW">https://t.co/8aFYUKK4cW</a> <a href="https://t.co/jraAXwRAw1">pic.twitter.com/jraAXwRAw1</a></p>
<p>&mdash; NASA&#39;s OSIRIS-REx (@OSIRISREx) <a href="https://twitter.com/OSIRISREx/status/1140695013682077698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Researchers behind the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft observing Bennu said the view is the closest orbit a spacecraft has ever made around a small planetary body in our solar system, breaking its own record set late in December in which it came as close as 1.3 kilometres (0.8 miles).</p>
<p>The latest image was captured by the agency’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on June 13, showing half of the rock brightened by sunlight while the other half sits in the shadows.</p>
<p>Bennu’s largest boulder is also visible, protruding from the southern hemisphere.</p>
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<p>OSIRIS-REx – which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer – arrived at Bennu on December 3, after launching from Earth in September 2016.</p>
<p>Asteroids, which orbit the sun but are much smaller than planets, are among the oldest objects in the solar system and could provide answers about how Earth evolved.</p>
<p>Scientists believe that Bennu was originally part of a much larger asteroid which it broke away from around 700 million to two billion years ago.</p>
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