"NASA's Asteroid Missions: From Chaos to Captured Samples"
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully delivered the first asteroid sample to Earth, collected from the asteroid Bennu. Now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, the spacecraft is setting a course for Apophis, an asteroid that will come close to Earth in 2029. OSIRIS-APEX will study Apophis for 18 months, using thrusters to kick up dust and rocks for analysis. In other news, a newly described tarantula species with an electric blue appearance has been discovered in southern Thailand.
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