ASTEROIDS

NASA has touched the surface of asteroid Bennu to collect the agency’s first ever asteroid sample, which will one day shed new insights on the history of our solar system… so what’s next? Join NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission experts and ask them your questions! Submit them using #ToBennuAndBack and tune in today at 6:15 p.m. ET as they walk you through new images and videos captured by the spacecraft as it descended down to the asteroid's surface.

More than we could have ever imagined…  Yesterday, Oct. 20, our OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descended to the surface of asteroid Bennu, touched down and attempted to capture a sample using a “Touch-And-Go,” or TAG, maneuver. Join us at 5 p.m. EDT for a live broadcast with the mission team, as they provide a recap of yesterday’s journey #ToBennuAndBack and reveal first images and videos of this historic event.

A NASA spacecraft descended to an asteroid and momentarily touched the surface to collect a handful of cosmic dust. Michael Daly, lead scientist for the instrument that mapped the asteroid's surface, answered some questions from two special guests.  »»» Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/1RreYWS Connect with CBC News Online: For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage: http://bit.ly/1Z0m6iX Find CBC News on Facebook: http://bit.ly/1WjG36m Follow CBC News on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1sA5P9H For breaking news on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1WjDyks Follow CBC News on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1Z0iE7O Download the CBC News app for iOS: http://apple.co/25mpsUz Download the CBC News app for Android: http://bit.ly/1XxuozZ »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» For more than 75 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.

Nasa staff celebrate after successfully landing the Osiris-Rex spacecraft on the asteroid Bennu in a mission to collect surface samples and return them to Earth. The spacecraft made contact after a four-hour descent and two years orbiting the asteroid 200m miles from Earth. After the operation to collect samples, it then lifted off to begin its return journey to Earth where it is expected to arrive in 2023 Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub Nasa Osiris-Rex spacecraft lands on asteroid Bennu in mission to collect dust ► https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/21/nasa-osiris-rex-spacecraft-lands-on-asteroid-bennu-in-mission-to-collect-dust Support the Guardian ► https://support.theguardian.com/contribute Today in Focus podcast ► https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► http://www.youtube.com/theguardian Owen Jones talks ► http://bit.ly/subsowenjones Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture

Let's do this, OSIRIS-REx! Time to journey #ToBennuAndBack. Tune in to our live broadcast as our spacecraft descends to the surface of asteroid Bennu, touches down for a few seconds & attempts to capture regolith (rocks and dust) using a “Touch-And-Go,” or TAG, maneuver. The spacecraft must target Bennu’s rocky surface with great accuracy, touching down within a rocky area just 52 ft (16 m) in diameter. During the maneuver, the spacecraft and the asteroid will be approximately 207 million miles (334 million km) from Earth. Live coverage from Lockheed Martin's facility in Denver, Colorado, with mission managers from the University of Arizona, Lockheed Martin, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center begins at 5 p.m. EDT.  The spacecraft is scheduled to depart Bennu in 2021, and to deliver the collected sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023. It will be the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth, and the largest sample returned from space since the Apollo era.

Today, @NASA launches its most ambitious sample return mission since Apollo, OSIRIS-Rex, where they’ll collect an asteroid sample (after landing on it!) and bring it back to Earth. How will they collect the sample? Will it knock the asteroid off its course? Is there a risk for radiation exposure to affect the sample? What does OSIRIS-REx even mean? Lucy Lim, an Assistant Project Scientist on OSIRIS-REx and Research Scientist at @NASA Goddard's Solar System Exploration Division in Maryland, answers all of these questions and more in this week’s Explainer with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/startalkradio FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to StarTalk: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/startalkradio?sub_confirmation=1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/startalkradio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StarTalk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startalkradio/ About the prints that flank Neil in this video: “Black Swan” & “White Swan” limited edition serigraph prints by Coast Salish artist Jane Kwatleematt Marston. For more information about this artist and her work, visit https://inuit.com/. About StarTalk: Science meets pop culture on StarTalk! Astrophysicist & Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, his comic co-hosts, guest celebrities & scientists discuss astronomy, physics, and everything else about life in the universe. Keep Looking Up! #StarTalk #NeildeGrasseTyson

Asteroid 2018 VP1 will fly about 260,000 miles (420,000 km) from Earth on Nov. 2, 2020, the day before Election Day in the United States. "It currently has a 0.41% chance of entering our planet's atmosphere, but if it did, it would disintegrate due to its extremely small size," according to NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/election-day-asteroid-flybys-2020.html Credit: Space.com / orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech / produced & edited by [Steve Spaleta](http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)

Webinar archive entitled, “OSIRIS-REx at Asteroid Bennu” featuring NASA Scientists Ann Nguyen and Nicole Lunning from the Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science (ARES) Division at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. (Live webinar held on 10/15/2020). [RECORDING BREAKDOWN: Webinar Welcome/Speaker Introductions: 0:00 – ~06:00; Presentation from Ann Nguyen: ~06:00 – ~39:27; Presentation from Nicole Lunning: ~39:28 – ~51:14; Q&A and Closing Remarks: ~51:14 – end]

Asteroids 2020 UX and 2020 TF6 zipped by Earth on Oct. 19, 2020. Car-size asteroid 2020 UX flew about 118,000 mi. (190,000 km) away while bus-size asteroid 2020 TF6 was about 95,400 mi. (153,531 km) away. Credit: Space.com / orbit animations: NASA/JPL-Caltech / produced & edited by Steve Spaleta (http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG” asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20 – touch its surface and collect a sample for return to Earth. Sample site Nightingale, the mission’s targeted touch down spot, is only a few parking spaces wide and surrounded by building-sized boulders that pose a hazard to OSIRIS-REx. The spacecraft will carefully navigate down to the sample site with its sampling arm extended and touch Bennu’s surface for several seconds. Upon contact, the collector head will fire a bottle of nitrogen gas to agitate loose material, which is then caught in the spacecraft’s collector head. After this brief touch, OSIRIS-REx will fire its thrusters to back away from Bennu, navigating to a safe distance from the asteroid. The spacecraft will depart Bennu in 2021 and deliver the sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023. https://nasa.gov/osiris-rex Music: "Avenger" by Max Cameron Concors and "Fight for Earth" by Peter Nickalls, via Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Lead Producer: Dan Gallagher (USRA) Producer: James Tralie (ADNET) Editor: James Tralie (ADNET) Animators: James Tralie (ADNET) Krystofer Kim (USRA) Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA) Bailee DesRocher (USRA) Jacquelyn DeMink (USRA) Jonathan North (USRA) Josh Masters (Freelance) Lead Animator: Walt Feimer (KBRwyle) Videographers: Rob Andreoli (AIMM) John Caldwell (AIMM) Set Construction: Chris Meaney (KBRwyle) Art Director: Michael Lentz (USRA) Lead Visualizer: Kel Elkins (USRA) Visualizer: Ernie Wright (USRA) Interviewees: Nayi Castro (KBRwyle) Michael Moreau (NASA/GSFC) David A. Lorenz (SGT) Technical Support: Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET) Support: Erin Morton (The University of Arizona) Nancy Neal-Jones (NASA/GSFC) Michael Starobin (KBRwyle) This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13730

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before: Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by gravity, and shaped like a spinning top. This major validation, however, was accompanied by a major surprise. Scientists had expected Bennu’s surface to consist of fine-grained material like a sandy beach, but were instead greeted by a rugged world littered with boulders – the size of cars, the size of houses, the size of football fields. Now, thanks to laser altimetry data and high-resolution imagery from OSIRIS-REx, we can take a tour of Bennu’s remarkable terrain. Unlock the secrets of asteroid Bennu: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/... Universal Production Music: “Timelapse Clouds” by Andy Blythe and Marten Joustra; “The Wilderness” by Benjamin James Parsons; “Maps of Deception” by Idriss-El-Mehdi Bennani, Olivier Louis Perrot, and Philippe Andre Vandenhende Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Data provided by NASA/University of Arizona/CSA/York University/MDA. Dan Gallagher (USRA): Producer Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Visualizer Jonathan North (USRA): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA): Animator Dan Gallagher (USRA): Narrator Erin Morton (The University of Arizona): Support Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Support This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13729

A historic moment is on the horizon for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx. On Oct. 20, the spacecraft will descend to asteroid Bennu’s surface, touch down for a few seconds and collect a sample of the asteroid’s rocks and dust, which will be returned to Earth for study. NASA astrobiologists Dr. Jason Dworkin and Dr. Scott Sandford explain the importance of the OSIRIS-REx mission in the quest to understand the role that asteroids and other small bodies play in the origins of life on Earth. #ToBennuAndBack asteroidmission.org astrobiology.nasa.gov Featuring Dr. Jason Dworkin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Dr. Scott Sandford (NASA Ames Research Center) Video & images are courtesy of NASA and its affiliates. Music by Bensound.com (License certificate #1999293) Directed & Edited by Mike Toillion About OSIRIS-REx: NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth, addressing multiple NASA Solar System Exploration objectives. OSIRIS-REx launched from Cape Canaveral on September 8, 2016. OSIRIS-REx completed its 1.2 billion-mile journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu on December 3, 2018. On October 20th, 2020, it will make its first attempt to capture a sample of the asteroid's regolith. Asteroids are the leftover debris from the solar system formation process that began over four billion years ago, and they can teach us a lot about the history of the Sun and planets. Bennu may contain the molecular precursors to the origin of life and the Earth’s oceans. Bennu is also a potentially hazardous asteroid that has a relatively high probability of impacting the Earth late in the 22nd century. OSIRIS-REx will determine Bennu’s physical and chemical properties, which could be critical for developing an impact mitigation mission in the future.

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission is ready for its long-awaited touchdown on asteroid Bennu. What will its samples reveal? » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist » Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, was launched approximately 4 years ago in September 2016 with the goal of collecting samples from an asteroid. Specifically, a rare B-type asteroid. B-type asteroids are primitive, meaning they haven’t changed much since the Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago. And this could mean they contain carbon-based organic molecules similar to those that led to life on Earth. The B-type asteroid OSIRIS-REx was launched at is called Bennu, formerly known as RQ36, and since December 2018, OSIRIS-REx has been surveying and orbiting Bennu, mapping the asteroid’s surface, tracking its spin, ad gaining experience flying close to a small body. Find out more about the science OSIRIS-REx has been doing as it whizzes around Bennu and the mission's findings in this Elements. #NASA #asteroid #OSIRIS #bennu #space #seeker #science #elements Read More: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins its Countdown to TAG https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/osiris-rex-begins-its-countdown-to-tag "In just a few weeks, the robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will descend to asteroid Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface, touch down for a few seconds and collect a sample of the asteroid’s rocks and dust – marking the first time NASA has grabbed pieces of an asteroid, which will be returned to Earth for study." Mysterious asteroid activity complicates NASA’s sampling attempts https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/mysterious-asteroid-activity-complicates-nasa-s-sampling-attempts "The abundance of impact craters on Bennu’s ridgelike belly suggest the asteroid is up to a billion years old, more ancient than once thought." Do asteroids hold the key to life on Earth? https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/do-asteroids-hold-the-key-to-life-on-earth/4011612.article "'The water and organics on Earth didn’t form with the planet, they came in later on asteroids,’ explains Harold Levison, a chief planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, US." ____________________ Elements is more than just a science show. It’s your science-loving best friend, tasked with keeping you updated and interested on all the compelling, innovative and groundbreaking science happening all around us. Join our passionate hosts as they help break down and present fascinating science, from quarks to quantum theory and beyond. Seeker empowers the curious to understand the science shaping our world. We tell award-winning stories about the natural forces and groundbreaking innovations that impact our lives, our planet, and our universe. Visit the Seeker website https://www.seeker.com/videos Elements on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SeekerElements/ Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel Seeker on Twitter http://twitter.com/seeker Seeker on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SeekerMedia/ Seeker http://www.seeker.com/

NASA OSIRIS-REx mission's Touch-And-Go (TAG) maneuver will be employed to collect samples of asteroid Bennu at the predetermined "Nightingale" site. [NASA gearing up for epic asteroid-sampling maneuver next month](https://www.space.com/nasa-asteroid-bennu-sample-collection-in-october-2020) Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

On Oct. 20, the OSIRIS-REx mission will perform the first attempt of its Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event. Not only will the spacecraft navigate to the surface using innovative navigation techniques, but it could also collect the largest sample since the Apollo missions. https://nasa.gov/osiris-rex Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Lead Editor Animator Narrator Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Jonathan North (USRA): Animator Krystofer Kim (USRA): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA): Animator Michael Lentz (USRA): Animator Music: "The Glory of Victory" by Frederik Wiedmann, via Universal Production Music This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13725 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

Since arriving at asteroid Bennu in Dec. 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved many feats – from setting a record-breaking orbit, to mapping the asteroid’s surface better than any planetary body. The mission is now preparing to collect a sample of Bennu, which will be the first time that NASA has gathered pieces of an asteroid. On Oct. 20, the OSIRIS-REx mission will perform the first attempt of its Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event. Not only will the spacecraft navigate to the surface using innovative navigation techniques, but it could also collect the largest sample since the Apollo missions. The spacecraft will deliver the sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023. More about the mission: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Animator Narrator Lead Editor Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA): Animator Michael Lentz (USRA): Animator Music: "Endeavor" by Frederik Wiedmann, via Universal Production Music This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13719

The OSIRIS-REx team has already pushed the boundaries of scientific exploration — going from ground-based radar images from Arecibo in Puerto Rico all the way to orbiting a few hundred meters from asteroid Bennu. The team is mere days away from a sample collection attempt at the asteroid surface. Before this attempt, we take a look back at some of the major achievements, surprises and challenges of sampling an asteroid with OSIRIS-REx. https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Lead Editor Animator Narrator Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Michael Lentz (USRA): Animator Lisa Poje (USRA): Animator Bailee DesRocher (USRA): Animator Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA): Animator Josh Masters (Freelance): Animator Kel Elkins (USRA): Data Visualizer Music is "Growing Idea" from Universal Production Music This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13718 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

NASA thinks that a fragment of asteroid Vesta impacted asteroid Bennu and left bright bolders scattered on the Bennu's southern hemisphere. The bolders have been studied using NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Asteroid 2020 SW will fly about 17,419 miles (28,034 km) away from Earth on Sept. 24, 2020. (Close approach data updated on Sept. 23, see below) Full Story: https://www.space.com/asteroid-2020-sw-earth-flyby-closer-than-moon.html The space rock is estimated to be 14.4 to 32.4 feet (4.4-9.9 m) wide. UPDATE: On Sept. 23, 2020, NASA reported that the asteroid will pass "13,000 miles (22,000 kilometers) above our planet's surface," on Sept. 24. Credit: Space.com / orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech / produced & edited by Steve Spaleta (http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)

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