The ‘Asteroid Hunter’ leading the OSIRIS-REx mission March 21, 2024 University of Arizona Regents Professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, shares stories from his new book, "The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System." Read more at NPR Science Friday Life after asteroid Bennu March 21, 2024 University of Arizona Regents Professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, shares stories from his new book, "The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System." Read more at The New York Times NASA scientist reveals what asteroids keep him up at night in new book March 19, 2024 Dante Lauretta, Regents Professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona, discusses the keystone to the entire OSIRIS-REx mission: the space-rock scooper called the Touch and Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism that actually obtained the sample of the asteroid Bennu. He also talks about what might be hiding inside the carbon-rich, ultra-dark asteroid samples, and what near-Earth asteroids keep him up at night. Read more at Inverse 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth March 18, 2024 Scientists shared the first comprehensive science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, revealing the out-of-this-world makeup of asteroid Bennu. Read more at Live Science U of A scientist in charge of OSIRIS-REx pens mission memoir March 2, 2024 University of Arizona Regents Professor of planetary science Dante Lauretta will speak about the OSIRIS-REx space mission, and his new book about the experience, during two panel discussions March 9 at the Tucson Festival of Books on the University of Arizona campus. Read more at Arizona Daily Star AZPM presents 'OSIRIS-REx: To Bennu and Back' panel discussion Feb. 26, 2024 Erika Hamden leads a panel discussion with OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta, mission implementation senior system engineer Anjani Polit and AZPM's John Booth, producer of the film "OSIRIS-REx: To Bennu and Back." Read more at AZPM NASA reveals its total asteroid haul from ambitious mission Feb. 17, 2024 NASA recently announced that the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission returned to Earth with 121.6 grams of rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu – more than twice the amount required to declare the mission a success. The final tally came after technicians at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston unstuck two stubborn fasteners and emptied the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, the part of the spacecraft that actually contacted Bennu's surface in 2020, and suffered damage during the reentry process last September. Read more at Mashable Bennu asteroid could be from an 'ocean world' researchers say Feb. 11, 2024 After seven years in space and over 4 billion miles traveled, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully collected and delivered the first U.S. sample from a near-Earth asteroid. University of Arizona scientists received 200 milligrams of material collected from the asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and returned to Earth. Initial analyses indicate the samples contain plentiful amounts of water locked up in minerals like clays and are also rich in carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorous. Read more at BBC NASA's asteroid samples may be crumbs from an ancient ocean world Feb. 7, 2024 University of Arizona scientists received 200 milligrams of material collected from the asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and returned to Earth. Initial analyses indicate the samples contain plentiful amounts of water locked up in minerals like clays and are also rich in carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorous. Read more at GIzmodo First look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world' Feb. 6, 2024 University of Arizona scientists received 200 milligrams of material collected from the asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and returned to Earth. Initial analyses indicate the samples contain plentiful amounts of water locked up in minerals like clays and are also rich in carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorous. "We have over a 1,000 particles that are greater than half-a-millimeter, 28 particles that are greater than a centimeter, and the biggest particle is 3.5 centimeters" said the mission's principal investigator, Dante Lauretta, a Regents Professor in the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. "We're going to be busy for a long, long time. This is an enormous amount of sample for us." Read more at Space.com Pagination … 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … Next › Next page Last » Last page
The ‘Asteroid Hunter’ leading the OSIRIS-REx mission March 21, 2024 University of Arizona Regents Professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, shares stories from his new book, "The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System." Read more at NPR Science Friday
Life after asteroid Bennu March 21, 2024 University of Arizona Regents Professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, shares stories from his new book, "The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System." Read more at The New York Times
NASA scientist reveals what asteroids keep him up at night in new book March 19, 2024 Dante Lauretta, Regents Professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona, discusses the keystone to the entire OSIRIS-REx mission: the space-rock scooper called the Touch and Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism that actually obtained the sample of the asteroid Bennu. He also talks about what might be hiding inside the carbon-rich, ultra-dark asteroid samples, and what near-Earth asteroids keep him up at night. Read more at Inverse
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth March 18, 2024 Scientists shared the first comprehensive science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, revealing the out-of-this-world makeup of asteroid Bennu. Read more at Live Science
U of A scientist in charge of OSIRIS-REx pens mission memoir March 2, 2024 University of Arizona Regents Professor of planetary science Dante Lauretta will speak about the OSIRIS-REx space mission, and his new book about the experience, during two panel discussions March 9 at the Tucson Festival of Books on the University of Arizona campus. Read more at Arizona Daily Star
AZPM presents 'OSIRIS-REx: To Bennu and Back' panel discussion Feb. 26, 2024 Erika Hamden leads a panel discussion with OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta, mission implementation senior system engineer Anjani Polit and AZPM's John Booth, producer of the film "OSIRIS-REx: To Bennu and Back." Read more at AZPM
NASA reveals its total asteroid haul from ambitious mission Feb. 17, 2024 NASA recently announced that the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission returned to Earth with 121.6 grams of rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu – more than twice the amount required to declare the mission a success. The final tally came after technicians at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston unstuck two stubborn fasteners and emptied the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, the part of the spacecraft that actually contacted Bennu's surface in 2020, and suffered damage during the reentry process last September. Read more at Mashable
Bennu asteroid could be from an 'ocean world' researchers say Feb. 11, 2024 After seven years in space and over 4 billion miles traveled, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully collected and delivered the first U.S. sample from a near-Earth asteroid. University of Arizona scientists received 200 milligrams of material collected from the asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and returned to Earth. Initial analyses indicate the samples contain plentiful amounts of water locked up in minerals like clays and are also rich in carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorous. Read more at BBC
NASA's asteroid samples may be crumbs from an ancient ocean world Feb. 7, 2024 University of Arizona scientists received 200 milligrams of material collected from the asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and returned to Earth. Initial analyses indicate the samples contain plentiful amounts of water locked up in minerals like clays and are also rich in carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorous. Read more at GIzmodo
First look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world' Feb. 6, 2024 University of Arizona scientists received 200 milligrams of material collected from the asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and returned to Earth. Initial analyses indicate the samples contain plentiful amounts of water locked up in minerals like clays and are also rich in carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorous. "We have over a 1,000 particles that are greater than half-a-millimeter, 28 particles that are greater than a centimeter, and the biggest particle is 3.5 centimeters" said the mission's principal investigator, Dante Lauretta, a Regents Professor in the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. "We're going to be busy for a long, long time. This is an enormous amount of sample for us." Read more at Space.com