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Washington: NASA's first asteroid-sampling mission OSIRIS-REx has captured an incredible image of the Earth, the media reported.The image was captured on December 19, 2018, days before Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) went into orbit around Bennu on New Year's Eve, the Daily Mail reported. Bennu is the smallest ever celestial body to be orbited by a spacecraft. The picture shows the asteroid Bennu, top right, about 43 kilometres from the spacecraft, and the Earth and moon, bottom left, more than 110 million kilometres away. The tiny asteroid -- barely 500 meters across -- appears as a big bright blob in…