A visual journey to Bennu, the target of NASA's asteroid sampling mission OSIRIS-REx
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 08:00
in Astronomy & Space
Asteroid Bennu, the target of OSIRIS-REx, NASA's first mission to a pristine carbonaceous asteroid that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system, took center stage at the AAS's Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting in Tucson, Arizona. The mission's principal investigator, Dante Lauretta, will unveil a video animation chronicling the history and evolution of Bennu and present a review paper summarizing what scientists have learned about Bennu during 12 years of astronomical observations.