Explorers Sawyer and S'kropa fed one a large solid silicaceous fragment with a 25 meter radius and 425 kilometers in length.
type species | asteroid | type | Asteroid belt | Type (biology) | Diabetes mellitus type 1 | Type O Negative | Asteroid | Diabetes mellitus type 2 | Volkswagen Type 2 | Type I and type II errors | Type 56 assault rifle | type (biology) | Type 38 | Bugatti Type 57 | Amor asteroid | Type II supernova | Type Directors Club | Type 38 rifle | type genus | Type 59 | Type 45 destroyer | Jaguar S-Type | Handley Page Type O | Geranylgeranyltransferase type 1 | Blood type | Word (data type) | urban-type settlement | Type species | Type O' Negative |
E-type asteroid, an asteroid thought to have an enstatite achondrite surface
The mission is planned for a 2016 launch and will study and return a sample of asteroid 101955 Bennu (formerly designated 1999 RQ36), a carbonaceous asteroid, to Earth for detailed analyses in 2023.
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They indicate that 101955 Bennu is very dark and is classified as a B-type asteroid, a sub-type of the carbonaceous C-group asteroids.
P-type asteroid, asteroids found in the outer asteroid belt and beyond