Why Bennu?

The goal of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to collect a sample from an asteroid and bring it back to Earth. But just how did the OSIRIS-REx team choose Bennu from the over 500,000 known asteroids in the solar system? Watch this cartoon to find out! Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Video Produced & Edited by: David Ladd Animations by NASA's Conceptual Image Lab: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez & Bailee DesRocher Art Director: Michael Lentz Music provided by Killer Tracks: "Cheeky Chappy" - James Patrick Kaleth & Ross Andrew McLean