[MtnClimber]

The photo is an older APOD photo. Today's post is a video at the link.

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[MtnClimber]

[blueunicorn6]

“Store some of Bennu’s ejecta”

Nothing like a hot bowl of ejecta in the morning to get you ready for the day!

[Seruzawa]

[Telepathic Intruder]

No asteroids were harmed in the making of this movie (too much).

[zeestephen]

Very cool.

Great post - first time I have seen the “video” and the nitrogen blast.

[libertylover]

Does gravity hold those little rocks in place? It’s only 500 meters big and is rotating but the little rocks are staying put. Seems like they’d be slung off.

[Dundee]

If we have ‘tagged’ Bennu, does that mean Bennu is now ‘it’.

::sees 2020 on calendar::

NO TAG BACK!! NO TAG BACK!!!!