NASA will give the public a look at the asteroid-bennu.html” title=”On Wednesday, NASA to unveil OSIRIS-REx's findings from asteroid Bennu”>asteroid sample brought back to Earth by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft next week. A livestream of the reveal is set for 11 AM ET on Wednesday, October 11. The capsule containing rocks and dust taken from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid “Bennu” touched down at a Department of Defense training site in the Utah desert on September 24, and scientists have since been at work making their initial analyses.
In four days, we will be revealing the sample from asteroid Bennu collected from the #OsirisRex mission.
Tune in to our live broadcast starting at 11 am ET on Wednesday, Oct. 11. pic.twitter.com/pqZhDie3HK
— NASA’s Johnson Space Center (@NASA_Johnson) October 6, 2023
OSIRIS-REx grabbed its sample from Bennu back in 2020 and spent the subsequent year-and-a-half observing the asteroid from above, before starting to make its way back toward Earth in May 2021. After its dropoff last month, the canister was brought to Houston, Texas to be…
2023-10-06 16:36:51
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