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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collects significant amount of asteroid
Science Daily ^ | 23 October 2020

Posted on 10/24/2020 2:32:37 AM PDT by zeestephen

Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, Oct. 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements -- acquiring at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of the asteroid's surface material.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; apod; asteroid; asteroidbennu; asteroids; astronomy; bennu; dantelauretta; exploration; nasa; osirisrex; science; space; spacecraft; spaceexploration
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1 posted on 10/24/2020 2:32:37 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

A 2 ounce displaced chunk of Mars?


2 posted on 10/24/2020 2:47:26 AM PDT by Does so (Make mail-ins "provisional", count if walk-in vote is close. Ban ALL provisional if 2 are faked.)
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To: zeestephen
A brazen example of Colonialist theft of indigenous resources. Protest demonstration in Trump’s hotel lobby at noon. Bring stink bombs, glock, and flame throwers? Sponsored by DNC/BLM. Burn loot and mayhem! Show the rich oppressive kapitalist white pigs 🐷 we won’t take it anymore.Liberate the Asteroids! Asteroid Power! / s
3 posted on 10/24/2020 3:07:20 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

No. It’s “Liberate Hemorrhoids, not Asteroids”. So many Democrats need immediate relief because they need to clear their heads in order to think straight (or gay).


4 posted on 10/24/2020 3:20:03 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Does so

Get it now while real estate prices are low.


5 posted on 10/24/2020 3:20:34 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Ha! Agreed


6 posted on 10/24/2020 3:42:06 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: zeestephen

Whoever designed the collection tool has obviously never used a shovel. 2 ounces for all that money? Pathetic.


7 posted on 10/24/2020 3:52:31 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns are the EstablishmentÂ’s track on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Its apparent that none of the commenters thus far watched this historic event. Not a single educated comment, just jokes and snide remarks. What happened to FreeRepublic?


8 posted on 10/24/2020 4:21:33 AM PDT by Ferndina
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To: wildcard_redneck

Its apparent that none of the commenters thus far watched this historic event. Not a single educated comment, just jokes and snide remarks. What happened to FreeRepublic?


9 posted on 10/24/2020 4:21:39 AM PDT by Ferndina
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To: wildcard_redneck

Next time you are in the neighborhood of an astroid show NASA how its done.


10 posted on 10/24/2020 5:07:54 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

2 ounces? Those are rookie numbers! you gotta pump those numbers up!


11 posted on 10/24/2020 5:16:01 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns are the EstablishmentÂ’s track on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: Ferndina

“Have you no sense of humor?”


12 posted on 10/24/2020 5:18:44 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: Ferndina
“Its apparent that none of the commenters thus far watched this historic event. Not a single educated comment, just jokes and snide remarks. What happened to FreeRepublic?“

Sorry but I get disgusted when I watch all the beta boys at NASA giggle like little girls when a rover uses scoop that resembles something a child would use on top of a wimpy robotic arm pathetically scrapping up a millimeter of soil.

What is wrong with using a pound of C4 to make a crater and then scoop up buckets of soil?

13 posted on 10/24/2020 5:23:19 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns are the EstablishmentÂ’s track on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: wildcard_redneck

You’ll show them, right?


14 posted on 10/24/2020 6:24:34 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: wildcard_redneck
The article states that "All data so far suggest that the collector head is holding much more than 2 ounces of regolith."

One of the main mission requirements was to obtain at least 2 ounces of material, and I think they were just confirming that they had achieved that minimum.

15 posted on 10/24/2020 7:56:31 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Become a monthly donor and stamp out FReepathons.)
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To: zeestephen

“...acquiring at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of the asteroid’s surface material.”

#AsteroidMassMatters.


16 posted on 10/24/2020 8:03:37 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: wildcard_redneck

You obviously have forgotten the First Rule of Holes.


17 posted on 10/24/2020 8:10:14 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Ferndina

.. Not a single educated comment, just jokes and snide remarks. What happened to FreeRepublic?

A lot of old-timers have checked their poop-kicking boots in for wings&talons.

Saw a special recently on the craft and machinery involved in obtaining a sample,, pretty slick..

We’ll see who is around in 2023 when it gets back here.


18 posted on 10/24/2020 9:28:05 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! Help beat the leftist media at their own game.)
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Saw a special recently on the craft and machinery involved in obtaining a sample,, pretty slick..

Just landing on an asteroid is a neat trick. I am impressed.

19 posted on 10/24/2020 9:50:51 AM PDT by jpsb
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“You obviously have forgotten the First Rule of Holes.”

Wear protection?

20 posted on 10/24/2020 9:57:12 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns are the EstablishmentÂ’s track on the middle class and our Republic)
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