Sample-Return Targets

A small stony near-Earth 'rubble-pile' asteroid, the first body from which samples were returned to Earth, by Japan's Hayabusa in 2010.

A small, carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid sampled by OSIRIS-REx, whose material was returned to Earth in 2023.

A carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid visited by Japan's Hayabusa2, which returned surface and subsurface samples to Earth in 2020.