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Asteroid Rendezvous

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Speeds Toward Asteroid Rendezvous

NASA's first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of the early solar system. Ref. Source 9w.

Rendezvous Asteroid

NASA's OSIRIS-REx begins asteroid operations campaign. OSIRIS-REx caught its first glimpse of asteroid Bennu last week and began the final approach toward its target. Source 2a.

Asteroid Rendezvous UFO & Writing Art Education Sciences

Weird, wild gravity of asteroid Bennu. New research is revealing the Alice in Wonderland-like physics that govern gravity near the surface of the asteroid Bennu. Source 1t.

Rendezvous Asteroid

This asteroid seems to provide researchers different fields of science since the rock's reaction to certain laws are different. Asteroid Bennu is as tall as the empire state building, which is around 443m (Including the pole)! Imagine the damage this can cause if it ever lands the Earth.

Rendezvous Asteroid

Sand-sized meteoroids are peppering asteroid Bennu. A new study posits that the major particle ejections off the near-Earth asteroid Bennu may be the consequence of impacts by small, sand-sized particles called meteoroids onto its surface as the object nears the Sun. Source 3z.

Asteroid Rendezvous

These missions are very important because they are samples of our early solar system. It’s like a perfectly preserved bit of the building blocks of the planets.