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An asteroid treasure box lands on Earth on Sunday — and Canada will get a piece of it

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OSIRIS-REx launched in 2016 to collect samples from an asteroid named Bennu. Its main mission was to stick an arm out, "high-five" the asteroid and then vacuum up some of the debris. On Sunday, the spacecraft will release its sample capsule roughly four hours or 100,000 kilometres from Earth. The capsule will travel through the atmosphere at roughly 44,500 km/h before touching down in the Utah desert.

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An asteroid treasure box lands on Earth on Sunday — and Canada will get a piece of it

A spacecraft that has travelled more than 950 million kilometres is dropping off a care package on Sunday: samples from an asteroid that lies more than 100 million kilometres from Earth.

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