Monday, September 25, 2023

We have...

 ...asteroid bits. The Osiris-Rex capsule touched down successfully in Utah (the main spacecraft will now do a gravity assist maneuver and zoom off on another mission).

Now we have 250 grams of asteroid bits to study and the knowledge that we can do this again with other samples.

While Osiris doesn't have another sample capsule, its next destination is Apophis, which it will study close up. Yeah, that's the one that's going to kill us all according to the tabloids (spoiler, it's not).

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