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NASA update on the OSIRIS-REx mission, includes first picture of the asteroid from the spacecraft.
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Holder of the Two Leashes Asteroid approach Aug 24 2018, 06:48 PM
B Bernatchez First Approach Maneuver completed:
https://www.as... Oct 6 2018, 10:33 PM Explorer1 New images! (they will be leaving the '8-b... Oct 19 2018, 02:12 PM
mcaplinger QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Oct 19 2018, 06:12 AM)... Oct 19 2018, 04:16 PM Explorer1 https://www.asteroidmission.org/bennu-jupit...exob... Oct 24 2018, 08:03 PM Hungry4info New rotation movie from 3000 km taken on 23 Oct 20... Oct 26 2018, 01:18 AM Phil Stooke These are the 3 frames in that short movie, a bit ... Oct 26 2018, 05:37 AM mcmcmc Countdowns:
https://programmi.000webhostapp.com/os... Oct 29 2018, 01:39 PM mcmcmc QUOTE (mcmcmc @ Oct 29 2018, 02:39 PM) Co... Oct 29 2018, 02:39 PM Paolo Bennu at 100 Pixels
looking a lot like Ryugu Oct 30 2018, 07:41 PM Phil Stooke One very good thing about this is that I can use e... Oct 30 2018, 09:43 PM mcmcmc These direct query links to NASA Horizons provide ... Oct 31 2018, 01:44 PM mcaplinger There are SPICE kernels for Orex at https://naif.j... Oct 31 2018, 04:09 PM mcmcmc QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Oct 31 2018, 05:09 PM... Oct 31 2018, 04:58 PM mcaplinger QUOTE (mcmcmc @ Oct 31 2018, 08:58 AM) I ... Oct 31 2018, 08:44 PM mcmcmc QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Oct 31 2018, 09:44 PM... Nov 1 2018, 04:21 PM djellison QUOTE (mcmcmc @ Nov 1 2018, 08:21 AM) It... Nov 1 2018, 05:34 PM Phil Stooke An approach GIF was just released - these are the ... Nov 2 2018, 08:07 PM Hungry4info Two Sides of Bennu Nov 6 2018, 01:22 AM Explorer1 Interesting dark patches in the southern hemispher... Nov 6 2018, 03:46 AM charborob Bennu full rotation at 200 pixels. Nov 6 2018, 09:09 PM Phil Stooke Beautiful! That should be enough for a prelim... Nov 7 2018, 12:10 AM mcmcmc QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Nov 7 2018, 01:10 AM... Nov 7 2018, 11:13 AM walfy Here's a quickly rotating GIF in 3D of it, wit... Nov 8 2018, 06:05 AM walfy This version spins much slower, at 3 second interv... Nov 8 2018, 06:11 AM Phil Stooke Nice! And another way of presenting the data ... Nov 8 2018, 07:33 AM Roman Tkachenko Asteroid Bennu Rotation (3D animation) Nov 9 2018, 01:17 PM mcmcmc Interactive video:
http://win98.altervista.org/spa... Nov 12 2018, 09:15 PM charborob Bennu at 300 pixels. Nov 23 2018, 07:53 PM Spock1108 Bennu is really very small compared to Ryugu, it... Nov 24 2018, 09:07 AM Holder of the Two Leashes I guess the best word I can think of here is ... Nov 30 2018, 05:17 PM tanjent That's a nice side-by side comparison of the t... Nov 30 2018, 07:08 PM HSchirmer QUOTE (tanjent @ Nov 30 2018, 07:08 PM) .... Dec 5 2018, 04:03 AM Adam Hurcewicz OSIRIS-REx Arrival to Bennu (3-18 Dec 2018)
http... Dec 2 2018, 01:05 PM Daniele_bianchino_Italy I allowed myself to revisit Emily's comparison... Dec 3 2018, 11:30 AM PhilipTerryGraham This is what I'm assuming to be new, higher-re... Dec 3 2018, 05:55 PM Holder of the Two Leashes At the OSIRIS-REx website, the caption for the abo... Dec 3 2018, 07:08 PM vjkane I suspect it may take a lot of careful planning to... Dec 3 2018, 08:31 PM ElkGroveDan The first thing that stands out is how unusually s... Dec 3 2018, 08:54 PM Y Bar Ranch The animation makes it look like boulders should b... Dec 4 2018, 02:33 AM elakdawalla I pride myself on being able to discern solar syst... Dec 4 2018, 06:17 AM Hungry4info One thing that will help will be that the camera v... Dec 5 2018, 12:33 AM nprev Sure is a jagged little beast. Makes me wonder if ... Dec 5 2018, 03:13 AM Holder of the Two Leashes High Phase Angle Picture taken seven hours before ... Dec 5 2018, 05:47 PM Steve5304 QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Dec 5 2018... Dec 7 2018, 01:05 PM Holder of the Two Leashes News conference ready to start in fifteen minutes.... Dec 10 2018, 06:45 PM pbanholzer QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Dec 10 201... Dec 11 2018, 02:24 AM elakdawalla Here are a few images from the press briefing mate... Dec 11 2018, 06:46 PM elakdawalla This is the best I can do -- please someone here d... Dec 11 2018, 06:58 PM Ian R Here's a mediocre effort of my own, Emily
Dec 12 2018, 12:18 AM charborob Bennu North Pole flyover. Dec 22 2018, 08:03 PM kenny OSIRIS-REx has successfully entered orbit around B... Jan 1 2019, 12:17 PM MarkG [quote ...It is orbiting a mere 1 mile (1.75km) fr... Jan 1 2019, 10:18 PM Marcin600 New image - Bennu’s south pole: https://www.... Jan 23 2019, 12:11 AM Explorer1 Very nice high-res view near the north pole: https... Feb 28 2019, 04:45 AM Marcin600 New pics - region of Bennu’s northern hemisp... Mar 14 2019, 09:55 PM Hungry4info Bennu has plumes! (or perhaps rather ejections... Mar 19 2019, 07:24 PM Explorer1 So Bennu apparently has temporary moons every once... Mar 20 2019, 03:37 AM PhilipTerryGraham So we've uncovered a contact binary KBO that... Mar 20 2019, 05:42 AM nprev Hard to think of anything that would cause this as... Mar 20 2019, 06:30 AM stevesliva You mention thermal and mechanical/gravity. Ther... Mar 20 2019, 02:06 PM Gerald Agreed, electrostatic charging due to solar UV may... Mar 20 2019, 02:09 PM Marcin600 Or maybe Bennu is a body reassembled from fragment... Mar 20 2019, 07:11 PM bsharp Image processing artifacts or a lot more particles... Mar 21 2019, 12:56 PM fredk Recall that that press release image was a composi... Mar 21 2019, 03:14 PM bsharp QUOTE (fredk @ Mar 21 2019, 04:14 PM) Sin... Mar 21 2019, 06:17 PM tolis if memory serves, the charge-to-mass ratio of cm-s... Mar 21 2019, 08:04 PM Roman Tkachenko This 3D visualization is based on my preliminary 3... Mar 27 2019, 05:41 PM Phil Stooke Very nice!.
Here is a map of Bennu. The main... Mar 27 2019, 07:11 PM elakdawalla Nice map! I believe that the rock at 45S 130E ... Mar 27 2019, 08:46 PM charborob Bennu boulder in 3D. Mar 27 2019, 10:09 PM Marcin600 New pictures on the OSIRIS-REx website:
Bennu... Apr 7 2019, 05:04 PM Marcin600 Two Bennu's pictures ( https://www.asteroidmis... Apr 7 2019, 07:22 PM Marcin600 Interesting photos from OSIRIS-REx:
really huge bo... Apr 11 2019, 10:21 PM Marcin600 More beautiful boulders: https://www.asteroidmissi... Apr 12 2019, 07:47 PM Daniele_bianchino_Italy This revolutionizes a bit how I imagined the surfa... Apr 14 2019, 09:03 AM Marcin600 QUOTE (Daniele_bianchino_Italy @ Apr 14 2019,... Apr 16 2019, 01:29 AM Marcin600 "Benben" - largest boulder on Bennu: htt... Apr 15 2019, 10:17 PM AndyG I need help here.
I can see a protoplanetary disc... Apr 16 2019, 10:36 PM Marcin600 QUOTE (AndyG @ Apr 17 2019, 12:36 AM) I n... Apr 16 2019, 11:26 PM Marcin600 As far as I know, the details of the transition ... Apr 16 2019, 11:34 PM alan The popular model these days is that in the protop... Apr 17 2019, 08:44 PM JRehling My understanding, via meteorites:
Parent bodies w... Apr 18 2019, 01:53 AM charborob Looking at the published images of Bennu (link), I... May 10 2019, 02:05 AM Marcin600 North side of Bennu's largest boulder (nicknam... May 14 2019, 11:46 PM Marcin600 And a bit more "free" version of this ph... May 15 2019, 12:45 AM climber Why did you choose the shortest men on the Moon? May 15 2019, 08:08 PM Marcin600 QUOTE (climber @ May 15 2019, 10:08 PM) W... May 15 2019, 08:32 PM charborob Two of the recently posted images of Bennu could b... Jul 2 2019, 03:01 PM Holder of the Two Leashes Four candidate sample sites on Bennu have been sel... Aug 13 2019, 01:23 PM stevesliva Granted it's in bold at the bottom of the rele... Aug 13 2019, 01:59 PM Phil Stooke Time to update my map.
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Aug 13 2019, 05:22 PM John Moore Nice animation (and explanation) HERE of the four ... Aug 29 2019, 07:07 PM Marcin600 Surprisingly regular pattern of cracks on Bennu... Oct 1 2019, 01:10 AM Holder of the Two Leashes The down selection to a primary and backup sampli... Dec 12 2019, 04:51 PM Holder of the Two Leashes It will be Nightingale. Osprey is the backup site... Dec 13 2019, 02:25 PM Marcin600 New, detailed pictures of the surface of Nightinga... Feb 1 2020, 02:00 AM Marcin600 More nice boulders from a 600 m (pictures from OSI... Feb 6 2020, 12:04 AM Marcin600 From the OSIRIS-Rex website: "On Feb. 11, NAS... Feb 15 2020, 04:13 PM Marcin600 First official (approved by IAU) Bennu surface fea... Mar 7 2020, 04:52 PM  |
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