According to recent discoveries, the asteroid Bennu has had several near encounters with Earth, passing past in 1999, 2005, and 2011. According to a recent OSIRIS-Rex research team analysis, Bennu has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth on September 24, 2182.
According to an official announcement issued on the NASA website, samples collected from Bennu are scheduled to land on Earth on Sunday, September 24, in Eastern Time. This important payload is being hauled by the US space probe OSIRIS-Rex, which launched on its mission to collect samples from Bennu in 2016.
