Studying Bennu is imperative because the asteroid has a slim shot of eventually hitting Earth. NASA said in a 2021 paper from the OSIRIS-REx science team gives Bennu a [one-in-2,700] chance of impacting Earth on Sept. 24, 2182.

The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the moon.

UNDATED (WKRC) - A stadium-sized asteroid that passed by Earth this week will return, according to NASA. PEOPLE reported that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued an alert regarding a "stadium-size" asteroid that would approach Earth on Tuesday.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued an asteroid watch today, alerting residents around the globe to an asteroid that will pass near Earth. The asteroid will be roughly the size of a stadium. The asteroid 2024 ON is approximately 290 meters long,

NASA has an asteroid watch on for a stadium sized asteroid named Asteroid 2024 NO due to pass the Earth and moon on Sept 17

Are we about to get “rocked?” NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning for a monstrous asteroid that is expected to rocket past Earth on Tuesday evening. Dubbed 2024 ON, the celestial space rock measures 950 feet in diameter — approximately the size of a football stadium.