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LOS ANGELES: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid, has returned Bennu asteroid samples to Earth on Sunday, reported Xinhua.This marks America’s first sample return mission of its kind and “will open a time capsule to the beginnings of our solar system”, said NASA.The spacecraft released its sample capsule towards Earth at 6.42 am Eastern Time (1042 GMT) from about 101,000 km of the Earth’s surface, about one-third the distance from the Earth to the Moon, it said. The capsule entered Earth’s atmosphere as planned at 10.42 am Eastern Time (1442 GMT) off the coast of California.About 10 minutes later, it touched down at the US Department of D

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