Asteroids · 3
Sample-Return Targets
Asteroids from which spacecraft have returned samples to Earth — Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu.
A small stony near-Earth 'rubble-pile' asteroid, the first body from which samples were returned to Earth, by Japan's Hayabusa in 2010.
CategoryNear-EarthTypeSilicaceous (S)Diameter≈ 535 × 294 × 209 mDiscovered1998- 101955 BennuPHA
A small, carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid sampled by OSIRIS-REx, whose material was returned to Earth in 2023.
CategoryNear-EarthTypeCarbonaceous (C)Diameter490 mDiscovered1999 - 162173 RyuguPHA
A carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid visited by Japan's Hayabusa2, which returned surface and subsurface samples to Earth in 2020.
CategoryNear-EarthTypeCarbonaceous (C)Diameter900 mDiscovered1999