101955 Bennu is a C-type asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), that has an orbit semi-major axis distance of 1.1264 AU.  It is named after the Bennu, the ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the Sun, creation, and rebirth.
  101955 Bennu has a mean diameter of approximately 492 m and has been observed extensively with the Arecibo Observatory planetary radar and the Goldstone Deep Space Network.  Bennu is the target of the OSIRIS-REx mission, which arrived at Bennu on 3 December 2018.

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