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Asteroid Sample Rubble Drops In
Bennu To Barf Up the Gravel in Utah
The OSIRIS-REx sample return mission from the asteroid Bennu will occur on Sunday Sept 24, 2023 at 7:00AM PDST in the Utah desert.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performed a successful final course correction burn maneuver this last Sunday (Sept. 17, 2023).
The soon to be renamed NASA and JPL spacecraft is projected to release the sample return capsule…
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Sep 20, 2023
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Fat Fish Farmer
Tags Bennu, asteroids, mines, OSIRIS-REx, video
Of Rocks and Spin At Bennu
Microgravity Matters and Near Earth Objects
When I was a child, I earned candy money from my father in a unique way. Candy talk somehow seems appropriate in this post-election week where the eye candy and repetitive brand pitches are inescapable. “Watch the shiny object” is an ever-present political rant. These days we could all live well if we were simply paid a prorated rate to endure the current steady state of political…
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Nov 10, 2022
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Fat Fish Farmer
Tags asteroids, spin, Bennu, NASA, gravity, microgravity, ORISIS-REx