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How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun
10 months, 1 week ago

How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun

Live Mint  

It was, Dante Lauretta told his audience at an American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, like seeing an old friend after “seven years a journey of 3bn miles”. In the intervening years the capsule had travelled to Bennu, a small asteroid in an orbit which crosses that of the Earth, as part of a mission called OSIRIS REx. The …

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NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft

The Hindu  

NASA on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft — a jumble of black dust and rubble that's the most ever returned to Earth. NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft collected the samples three years ago from the surface of Bennu and then dropped them off sealed in a capsule during a flyby of Earth last month. …

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NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft

LA Times  

Ancient black dust from asteroid Bennu is visible outside the OSIRIS-REx sample collector, with more material inside. NASA on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft — a jumble of black dust and rubble that’s the most ever returned to Earth. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected the samples three years ago from the surface of …

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NASA asteroid sample lands safely in Utah before being whisked away by helicopter
1 year, 3 months ago

NASA asteroid sample lands safely in Utah before being whisked away by helicopter

NPR  

NASA asteroid sample lands safely in Utah before being whisked away by helicopter Enlarge this image toggle caption Keegan Barber/NASA Keegan Barber/NASA Scientists are exulting over the safe arrival of a canister containing about a cup's worth of asteroid rocks, collected 200 million miles away, that landed in a Utah desert after a 7-year NASA mission sent to retrieve them. …

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What will ‘cosmic detective’ OSIRIS-REx bring back on September 24? | Explained
1 year, 3 months ago

What will ‘cosmic detective’ OSIRIS-REx bring back on September 24? | Explained

The Hindu  

Come September 24, and debris from an alien world will land on the earth. NASA’s asteroid hunting spacecraft OSIRIS-REx – short for Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer – will drop a capsule containing pristine asteroid material in the Utah desert. The astro-material brought back by OSIRIS-REx, he added, “may provide scientists with valuable insights into how planets formed, what materials were …

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NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash
1 year, 3 months ago

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

NPR  

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash Enlarge this image toggle caption NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona If all goes as planned, on Sunday morning a bell-shaped space capsule the size of a mini-fridge will come screaming down through the atmosphere toward a Utah desert. That moment "was gut-wrenching," says …

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Sisters who called father ‘the chequebook’ lose legal bid over his fortune
3 years, 5 months ago

Sisters who called father ‘the chequebook’ lose legal bid over his fortune

The Independent  

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NASA collected a sample from asteroid Bennu, but some of it is leaking into space
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA collected a sample from asteroid Bennu, but some of it is leaking into space

CNN  

CNN — The historic collection of a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday was almost too successful. They aren’t moving fast, but nonetheless, it’s valuable scientific material.” The spacecraft's sample head is full of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. “The loss of mass is of concern to me, …

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NASA asteroid surface sampling on asteroid Bennu likely successful
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA asteroid surface sampling on asteroid Bennu likely successful

Hindustan Times  

NASA on Wednesday released its first images of a sampling operation carried out on the asteroid Bennu, which appeared to show successful recovery of rock and dust, or as one official put it, “the kind of mess we were hoping for.” In this image taken from video released by NASA, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches the surface of asteroid Bennu on …

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