Asteroid
A carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid sampled by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
| Type | Asteroid |
|---|---|
| Distance from the Sun | 1.13 AU |
| Diameter | 0 km |
| Mass | 7.80 × 10¹⁰ kg |
| Temperature | -11°C |
| Orbital period | 436 days |
| Rotation period | 4.297 hours |
| Apparent magnitude | 20.2 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | 1999 |
Asteroids are rocky leftovers from the solar system's formation, most of them confined to the belt between Mars and Jupiter where Jupiter's gravity kept them from ever assembling into a planet.
At 0 km across, Bennu is less than a thousandth of the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.
It keeps an average distance of 1.13 AU from the Sun, so sunlight takes 9 minutes to reach it.
A single orbit takes 1.2 years.
An average temperature of 262 K works out at -11 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.
It has been on record since 1999.
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