https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-asteroid-hunter-chooses-landing-site-on-boulder-strewn-space-rock/

NASA has chosen the spot on the asteroid Bennu where it will attempt to land a spacecraft next year and hoover up bits of rock and dirt before returning to Earth.

The OSIRIS-REx probe has been orbiting Bennu since last December, studying its surface and working out the safest place to descend. The spacecraft will target an area called Nightingale, with a back-up area called Osprey. If all goes well, OSIRIS-REx will touch down at one of the sites, blast the asteroid’s surface with a puff of nitrogen gas to kick up dirt and gather the precious samples, NASA said on 12 December.