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Carbonaceous Apollo asteroid
101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group, discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object that is listed on the Sentry Risk Table and has the second highest cumulative rating on the Palermo scale. It has a cumulative chance of around 1 in 1,750 of impacting Earth between 2178 and 2290 with the greatest risk being on 24 September 2182. It is named after Bennu, the ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the Sun, creation, and rebirth.
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Staub is a German-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:Chelsea Staub, American actress and singer, now credited as Chelsea Kane Danielle Staub, American television personality, philanthropist and singer Ervin Staub, Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts France Staub (1920–2005), ornithologist, herpetologist, botanist, and conservationist from Mauritius Jacob Staub, rabbi, author and poet John F.
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