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Missions & Telescopes

So Long Arecibo – And Thanks For All The Asteroid News
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After the 57 years the Arecibo telescope has collapsed bringing an end to its working life. The image shows the observatory in its heyday. Credit: Arecibo Observatory / NSF. At…

Hayabusa2’s Impact Event Shows How Asteroid Ryugu Responds To Being Struck
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On 6 December 2020, JAXA’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft will arrive back at Earth to drop a canister into the Woomera Test Range in Australia. The canister will contain samples taken from…

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Successfully Makes Contact with Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Successfully Makes Contact with Asteroid Bennu https://asteroidday-uploads.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/21173648/Screen-Shot-2020-10-21-at-5.35.12-PM.png 1600 926 Asteroid Day Asteroid Day https://asteroidday-uploads.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/21173648/Screen-Shot-2020-10-21-at-5.35.12-PM.png

OSIRIS-REx team celebrating successful TAG operation 20 Oct 2020. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully executed the manoeuvre that brought it into brief contact with asteroid Bennu, so that it could…

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…

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