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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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Asteroid Bennu's surface is like plastic ball pit same as play area for kids
2 years, 5 months ago

Asteroid Bennu's surface is like plastic ball pit same as play area for kids

India Today  

The OSIRIS-ReX mission returning to Earth after successfully scooping rock and soil samples has revealed a unique makeup of Asteroid Bennu. Scientists, after analysing the initial data gathered by the spacecraft as it swooped in to make the touch-and-go manoeuvre have realised that had it fired the thrusters, it could have sunk into Bennu due to the particles that make …

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Prepares For Final Flyby of Asteroid Bennu Before Returning to Earth
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Prepares For Final Flyby of Asteroid Bennu Before Returning to Earth

News 18  

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close encounter with Bennu on April 7 as it performs a final flyover to capture images of the asteroid’s surface. This final flyby of Bennu will provide the mission team an opportunity to learn how the spacecraft’s contact with Bennu’s surface altered the sample site and the region surrounding it. The spacecraft will …

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NASA mission will zoom by asteroid Bennu before returning sample to Earth
3 years, 10 months ago

NASA mission will zoom by asteroid Bennu before returning sample to Earth

CNN  

CNN — A NASA spacecraft that took a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles away now has a plan to come back home. On May 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will leave the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and begin a nearly three-year journey back to Earth, NASA officials announced this week. In April, the spacecraft will conduct a final flyby of …

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