Wednesday, September 27, 2023

NASA delivers bounty of asteroid samples to Earth | Science | AAAS

It only took some 10 minutes for the suitcase-size capsule to fall through the clear skies of the western United States.

After arriving in 2018, OSIRIS-REx spent 2 years orbiting its target, Bennu, a 500-meter-wide, carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid.

When the orbiter settled to the surface to collect a sample in October 2020, Bennu’s consistency made the attempt harrowing, with the spacecraft’s sampling arm plunging unexpectedly deep into Bennu’s rubble pile.

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