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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Leader – Dante Lauretta
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Dante Lauretta is a Professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He is an expert in near-Earth asteroid formation and evolution, and…

Plan an Event Around NASA’s OSIRIS-REx’s Daring Sample Collection
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On 20 October, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will attempt to collect samples from the surface of asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer. It was launched…

Are Rocks from Asteroid Vesta Hitch-hiking Through Space on Asteroid Bennu?
Are Rocks from Asteroid Vesta Hitch-hiking Through Space on Asteroid Bennu? https://asteroidday-uploads.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/29210225/BLOGPOSTPHOTO.png 1600 798 Asteroid Day Asteroid Day https://asteroidday-uploads.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/29210225/BLOGPOSTPHOTO.png

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured these images of asteroid Bennu’s surface during Spring 2019. They show strangely bright rocks that are now know to be fragments of asteroid Vesta. Credits: NASA/Goddard/University…

Get Ready for Asteroid Flora This Halloween
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Asteroid Flora will be at its brightest for thirteen years around Halloween this year. Reaching magnitude 8, it will remain below the limit of the naked eye visibility, but can…

Meet Asteroid Day Event Organisers Fundación Chilena De Astronomía
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The Fundación Chilena de Astronomía (Chilean Astronomy Foundation) was born in 2018 with a simple objective in mind: to promote science, technology and creativity with the aim of contributing to…

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