NASA starts processing OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples after successful return to Earth

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NASA has started the process of opening and removing the asteroid samples from a canister OSIRIS-REx for the first time in more than seven years.

Launched in 2016, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and collected samples from the near-Earth asteroid's surface.

ANU Astrophysichist and Cosmologist Brad Tucker has discussed with Sky News Australia OSIRIS-Rex and what researchers could find from the sample it brought back.

“We saw these samples land early Monday morning our time and now there has been essentially this process of unveiling them,” he told Sky News Australia.

“Because the way it worked is the touch and go system … it acted almost like an air filter on a car, it sucked up and contained all these samples.

“That was sealed into a larger container which is kind of what people saw land on Monday morning descending to earth.

The canister mainly contained samples of dust, pebbles and rock from the asteroid Bennu, Mr Tucker said.

The materials found in OSIRIS-REx spacecraft are set to be dived up for study among space agencies and scientific institutions worldwide.
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Lets hope it's not petrified wood this time.

andyc
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I've got one of those. It's called a Firepit BBQ. 😒

HellHound.
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It's just a caster mold painted as a rock lol 😂 🤣

tomjones
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Wow, humankind is really going to benefit from this discovery.

chairmandan
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Very interesting things happening in space!

kerstinsundgren
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Pile of crap that’s someone’s back yard 😂

masterofjedi
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If you want to know how the earth was created get a Bible and read the first chapter. Just saying

lfreeman
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I love the lazy sidestepping of scientists to say the life came from a comet. Not explaining how the comet carried that magically created life.

All the world’s scientists can’t create the simplest cell, and they want us to think what we have today was a matter of ten trillion happy mistakes. Right…

blatherskyt
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what if God thinks that it’s space junk?🤔🙀

adrianjohn.
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E=mc2

Some of the mass became energy to propel antimatter to the out reaches and beyond the universe .... it's still moving away...expanding.

Firestarter-AU
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The left would rather tell themselves shit like "conservatives don't believe in space" than actually engage in debate 🙄

Dismas-hu
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Yeah the samples of sand from devon Island 😂😂

QigongGreyDragon
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E=mc2

Some of the mass became energy to propel antimatter to the out reaches and beyond the universe .... it's still moving away...expanding.

Firestarter-AU
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E=mc2

Some of the mass became energy to propel antimatter to the out reaches and beyond the universe .... it's still moving away...expanding.

Firestarter-AU
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E=mc2

Some of the mass became energy to propel antimatter to the out reaches and beyond the universe .... it's still moving away...expanding.

Firestarter-AU
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E=mc2

Some of the mass became energy to propel antimatter to the out reaches and beyond the universe .... it's still moving away...expanding.

Firestarter-AU