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The OSIRIS-REx just tagged asteroid Bennu, gathered a sample theoretically and backed away from it and will be returning to Earth from 200 million miles away.

Fucking amazing.

Bravo !

 

2 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

The OSIRIS-REx just tagged asteroid Bennu, gathered a sample contaminated with a super-deadly previously unknown space virus and backed away from it and will be returning to Earth from 200 million miles away.

Fucking amazing.  And, we're all going to die.

Bravo !

 

FIF 2020

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

FIF 2020

Don't worry we still have a few years before it gets back.

Strange coincidence. Today I had coffee at Bennu.

54 minutes ago, XYZ said:

Strange coincidence. Today I had coffee at Bennu.

Those weren’t coffee grounds. 

This after one of their Martian landers was finally able to get some friction going, and started pounding its probe into Mars, just jackhammering at it.  It was the equivalent of throwing a hot dog down a hallway at first, but the probe was able to get some traction, and get some friction going, and is hoping to penetrate pretty deep, before it finishes.

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5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

This after one of their Martian landers was finally able to get some friction going, and started pounding its probe into Mars, just jackhammering at it.  It was the equivalent of throwing a hot dog down a hallway at first, but the probe was able to get some traction, and get some friction going, and is hoping to penetrate pretty deep, before it finishes.

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32 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

This after one of their Martian landers was finally able to get some friction going, and started pounding its probe into Mars, just jackhammering at it.  It was the equivalent of throwing a hot dog down a hallway at first, but the probe was able to get some traction, and get some friction going, and is hoping to penetrate pretty deep, before it finishes.

Go on...

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

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Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As planned, the spacecraft will reach Bennu in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.

 

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

23 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As planned, the spacecraft will reach Bennu in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.

 

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

It ha been traveling with the asteroid for 2 years 

29 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

Because you touch yourself.

3 minutes ago, XYZ said:

Because you touch yourself.

They should be able to plan for that, as it’s more of a constant than a variable 

14 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

They should be able to plan for that, as it’s more of a constant than a variable 

But they had to convert it from inches to millimeters for you. 

20 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

But they had to convert it from inches to millimeters for you. 

It’s the same length no matter the unit of measurement.  0.00011 miles is also accurate. 

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Repeating, of course.

Would the absence of heat in space imply that there also be no angle of the dangle?

18 minutes ago, freyguy said:

Would the absence of heat in space imply that there also be no angle of the dangle?

Insomuch as it’s proportional to the heat of the meat, I’d say you are correct. 

1 hour ago, UT_OB1 said:

It ha been traveling with the asteroid for 2 years 

The courtship before the penetration? 

I remain unimpressed until we can send Bruce Willis up there to blow it up with a nuclear bomb.

14 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

I remain unimpressed until we can send Bruce Willis up there to blow it up with a nuclear bomb.

Armageddon or Deep Impact?   Please discuss. 
 

5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

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The word is going to get around the space community. Earthians are handsy. 

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11 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

They took a ton of pictures but they could not send all of that information back that quickly.

They were going to start the download last night of some of them.

11 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

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13 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

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13 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

will be on this twitter when downloaded:

 

 

15 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As planned, the spacecraft will reach Bennu in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.

 

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

2023: The asteroid sample has finally touched down.  NASA scientists are eagerly looking forward to studying it.

2024: The containment zone around NASA's lab is now 1000 square miles and expanding at a rapid rate. 

On 10/20/2020 at 10:25 PM, BradInATX said:

I remain unimpressed until we can send Bruce Willis up there to blow it up with a nuclear bomb.

Bennu is just one in a million or more asteroids that speed through the solar system like buckshot. It’s a spin-top of rocks and boulders—so primitive that scientists believe it formed in the first 10 million years of the solar system’s history, over 4.5 billion years ago. The asteroid is the smallest body that a NASA spacecraft has ever orbited, space agency officials said. If left undisturbed in its orbit, there is a remote chance that one day in the 22nd Century it might pose a threat of collision with Earth, the scientists said.

Yippie-Kai-yay, motherfucker

6 hours ago, Radical Larry said:

 

Made an attempt? It went eventually billion miles. It had one job.

On October 20, 2020 at 11:39 PM, Knighthawk said:

Armageddon or Deep Impact?   Please discuss.

Whichever one had Téa Leoni and Leelee Sobieski wins.

End of discussion. 

On 10/21/2020 at 11:39 PM, justhookit said:

Made an attempt? It went eventually billion miles. It had one job.

It looks like that arm is duct taped on.  Glad to know the NASA engineers are just like the rest of us.  

On 10/21/2020 at 1:03 PM, FondrenRoad said:

2023: The asteroid sample has finally touched down.  NASA scientists are eagerly looking forward to studying it.

2024: The containment zone around NASA's lab is now 1000 square miles and expanding at a rapid rate. 

Michael Fucking Crichton knew this was going to happen, so he wrote a book about it

The Andromeda Strain - Wikipedia

and it was published in 1969

We should place those Russian worms in the soil to see how they respond.

8 minutes ago, Bevo said:

We should place those Russian worms in the soil to see how they respond.

Dune dude.

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