feeds/tech+feeds/techvideo: Nine-year-old boy provides name for Osiris-Rex's target asteroid: Bennu

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Nine-year-old boy provides name for Osiris-Rex's target asteroid: Bennu May 1st 2013, 23:08 By Mike Wall, Space.com A near-Earth asteroid that will be visited by a NASA spacecraft in 2018 now has a more approachable name — "Bennu" — thanks to a North Carolina third-grader.Nine-year-old Michael Puzio's suggestion beat out more than 8,000 other entries in an international student contest that sought to rename potentially dangerous asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36, which is the target of NASA's ... Media files: 6C7181948-boyle2688256E-F245-9AA5-13DA-347EC9AC2978.standard.jpg 6C7181949-boyle3AC9659A-528C-A988-C4E8-05885F56EC8F.standard.jpg

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