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Rice · Oct 13th 2023

News flash from the Washington Post just now:

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launches, beginning a first-of-its-kind mission to explore a metal asteroid

“The spacecraft will travel more than 2 billion miles to visit the asteroid 16 Psyche, which is believed to be the remnant core of an ancient planetary body and could be similar to the mostly mysterious core of Earth.“

Could be fascinating!

Rice · Sep 26th 2023

The answer, sadly: Argentina.

Rice · Sep 24th 2023

From today’s Washington Post:

A NASA capsule carrying pieces of an asteroid successfully landed in Utah. Scientists will use them to study origins of life.

OSIRIS-REx sampled the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu so scientists could find clues about the origin of life on Earth, as well as information that might shield the planet from future impacts. Bennu, a 1,640-foot-wide space rock, is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid, with one study giving it a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth in September 2182.

Posts from Rice in thread „Asteroid studies“

Asteroid studies

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launches, beginning a first-of-its-kind mission to explore a metal asteroid

Asteroid studies

Asteroid studies

A NASA capsule carrying pieces of an asteroid successfully landed in Utah. Scientists will use them to study origins of life.

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