In Egyptian mythology, the god Atum settled upon Benben to create the world after his flight over the waters in the form of the Bennu bird. Benben Saxum is the tallest boulder on Bennu.

The asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface as seen ... are in keeping with the mission name that is derived from Egyptian mythology. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...

Astronomers eventually named the half-kilometer-wide object Bennu, after a creation god from Egyptian mythology. And indeed, if Bennu, filled with organic compounds and water-rich minerals ...

Another commonly cited source of inspiration is the deity Bennu’s creation of the world—which can be thought of as a birth—in Egyptian mythology; Bennu is sometimes said to be represented by ...

Bennu, a near-Earth orbiting asteroid, was discovered in 1999. It is named after an ancient Egyptian bird deity. Third-grade student Michael Puzio won a contest to name it in 2013, according to NASA.

In Egyptian mythology, Apophis is a serpent-shaped god ... After a seven-year journey to the Bennu asteroid, the OSIRIS-REx returned to Earth in September. After the 4 billion kilometre journey ...

A capsule containing pieces from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu separated from the spacecraft known as the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer ...

A Bennu sample on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History after it was unveiled to museumgoers Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. James Di Loreto and Phillip R. Lee, Smithsonian.

Bennu is named after a mythological Egyptian bird associated with Osiris, the god of the Sun, creation, rebirth — and ominously — death.