OSIRIS-REx, the coolest named NASA probe to date, arrives at tiny Bennu on Dec 21, and in a year or so will grab some of it for return to Earth. Woo.



Asteroid-sampling Mission Zeroes in on Tiny Space Rock


U.S. spacecraft aims to return the largest trove of space dirt to Earth since NASA’s final Apollo mission in the 1970s
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ny-space-rock/